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THE
EATON FAMILY
OF NOVA SCOTIA
1760—1929
By
Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton
Doctor of Civil Law
PRIVATELY PRINTED
1929
THE MURRAY PRINTING COMPANY
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.
WITH DEEP AFFECTION
I DEDICATE THIS BOOK TO
JOSEPH WILFRED EATON
GRADUATE OF HARVARD, COMMUNICANT OF THE
EPISCOPAL CHURCH, WHOSE PROMISING
YOUNG LIFE HERE CAME TO AN
END IN SWITZERLAND ON
NEW year’s day
1929
CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
I. Eaton Families of England and New England . 3
II. John Eaton of Wiltshire, England, and
Massachusetts Bay 10
III. David Eaton of Haverhill; and Cornwallis,
Nova Scotia 26
IV. Sixth Generation 37
V. Seventh Generation 46
VI. Eighth Generation 78
VII. Ninth Generation 130
VIII. Tenth Generation 180
IX. Some Families Intermarried with the
Nova Scotia Eatons 194
X. Eaton University Graduates . . . .210
Additions 214
Puritan Planters 223
PORTRAITS
Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton, D.C.L.
Frontispiece
John Edgar Eaton, LL.B
Facing Page 3 2
Cyrus Stephen Eaton, B.A
. 68
Joseph Wilfred Eaton, B.A. ....
. 82
William Eaton, Esquire
124
Joseph Howe Eaton, Esquire ....
132
Hon. Charles Aubrey Eaton, LL.D.
. 136
Arthur Watson Eaton, Esquire
146
Frank Herbert Eaton, D.C.L
172
John Nicholson Eaton, Esquire
. . 178
Hon. William Robb Eaton, LL.B.
. 186
‘‘The man who feels no sentiment of veneration for
the memory of his forefathers is himself unworthy of
kindred regard or remembrance.”
Daniel Webster.
“A wise nation preserves its records, gathers up its
muniments, decorates the tombs of its illustrious dead,
repairs its great structures, and fosters national pride
and love of country by perpetual references to the
sacrifices and glories of the past.”
Joseph Howe.
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CHAPTER I
EATON FAMILIES OF ENGLAND
AND NEW ENGLAND
The surname Eaton, Eton, Eyton, borne by many
families in England, not unknown in Ireland and
Wales, and in the first spelling widely distributed
throughout the North American continent, is derived
from the Old English roots ea, river, stream, and tun^
‘‘the commonest of all English place-name suffixes,’’
meaning primarily an inclosed piece of ground, from
which it came to mean “inclosed land with dwellings on
it, estate, manor, vill, village.” Thus Eaton as a place-
name designated an estate, manor, or village near a
stream or river, and as a surname was given the owner
of such an estate and his family when surnames were
invented in addition to Christian names to identify
families. One authority for this derivation of the name
Eaton is Allen Mawer, editor of a volume entitled “The
Chief Elements used in English Place-Names. Being
the Second Part of the Introduction to the Survey of
English Place-Names,” published by the Cambridge
University Press in 1924. Other conspicuous authori-
ties give the same derivation for the name. Important
families bearing the Eaton name under one spelling or
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another are or have been known in many counties of
England, as Chester, Essex, Leicester, Northampton,
Nottingham, Rutland, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Wilts,
and Worcester, as also in Limerick, Ireland, and Den-
bigh and Flint in Wales. Names of places in England
in which the name Eaton appears, either alone or in
combination with other names, are many.
In Burke’s General Armory are recorded no less than
twenty separate arms borne by Eaton families in Great
Britain and Ireland, in the case of some of which there
is such similarity that we are led to believe that the
families bearing them are more or less closely related,
while others give no such indication whatever. While so
far as I know no critical study has been made of the
origins of the several conspicuous English families of
Eaton, Eton, or Eyton, the probability seems to be
that families bearing these names sprang from many
different sources owing to settlement by their found-
ers in early times in close proximity to rivers or small
streams or lakes or the sea. Of armigerous Eaton fami-
lies, Burke mentions half a dozen in Cheshire, one in
Essex, one in Lancashire, one in Leicestershire, one in
London, one in Nottinghamshire, three in Shropshire,
one in Somersetshire, one in Warwickshire, one in Wilt-
shire, and one in York, besides which he gives three in
Ireland, and a number that we cannot precisely locate.
The only Eaton in the British peerage today is
Francis Ormond Henry Eaton, Baron Cheylesmore
of Cheylesmore, Coventry, County Warwick, D.S.O.,
fourth baron, whose grandfather, Henry William Eaton,
was raised to the peerage July 9, 1887, and died in
1891. His immediate successor was his son, Hon.
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William Meriton Eaton, who died unmarried in 1902,
and his successor, his brother, Hon. Major General
Herbert Francis Eaton, who married Elizabeth Rich-
ardson French of New York, their son, Hon. Francis
Ormond Henry Eaton, becoming in time fourth baron.
The arms of this family are, Erminois a fret azure, two
flaunches of the last, each charged with a wing erect
argent. Crest, a lion’s head erased argent devouring
a tun, gorged with a double chain gold, suspended
therefrom an escutcheon azure charged with a cross
couped, also or. (These arms have supporters.) Motto,
Vincit omnia veritas. Baron Cheylesmore’s clubs are
Guards and Whites.
(In Toronto, Canada, lives Florence, Lady Eaton,
widow of Sir John Craig Eaton, Knight, president of
the T. Eaton Company, Ltd., who died March 30,
1922.)
In the history of one of the greatest families in
Britain the Eaton name has a conspicuous place: the
Duke of Westminster’s family name is Grosvenor and
the founder of the Grosvenor family of Chester, Eng-
land, which he represents, was Ralfe de Grosvenor,
living in the time of Henry VI, who married Joan, only
daughter and heiress of John Eton of Eton (now Eaton),
who bore him three sons. The first of these sons Burke
records as ‘‘Robert of Eaton,” from whom the noble
Westminster family descends. In 1761 Sir Richard
Grosvenor of Eaton, Baronet, was elevated to the
peerage as a baron; in 1784 he was made earl, in 1831
marquess, and in 1874 Duke of Westminster. As is well
known, the historic seat of this Westminster family is
Eaton Hall, near Chester. The Duke also owns Halkin
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Castle, in Flintshire, Wales. His town house is Bour-
don House, 2 Davies Street, W. I., London.
To Massachusetts, in New England, in the great
Puritan migration in the seventeenth century, came no
less than five founders of Eaton families on these
shores, one of these, Francis Eaton of the Mayflower^
and four others, all with their wives and some chil-
dren, two possibly nearly related, the others having no
known relationship to each other at all. Of these five
Eaton founders of American families in New England
there are multitudes of living descendants scattered
throughout the United States and Canada, and in man-
uscript at least there is more or less record to be found
of them, although unhappily far too little of consecu-
tive genealogical information concerning them has to
the present moment come into print. In addition to
the founders of the five New England families I have
mentioned are the three Eaton brothers of New Eng-
land’s early days. Governor Theophilus Eaton of the
New Haven Colony and Nathaniel and Samuel, about
whom much has in one way or another been written, but
none of whom so far as is known has any descendants,
certainly in the Eaton name, in America today.
For a few years in the latter part of the nineteenth
century there existed in New England an “Eaton
Family Association,” in which each of the five New
England families of Eatons of the present day were
represented, but the Association at length dissolved, for
one after another its most active early promoters died
and none arose to take their places. In each of the five
families there was, for the years the Association lasted,
an active, intelligent genealogist, who at his death left
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a considerable genealogical manuscript which he had
enthusiastically spent a great deal of time in compiling
and which, if it could have been published, would have
been of untold value to people today of the Eaton name
and to a vast number of genealogical workers on other
New England families. The leading genealogists of
Eaton families were: of the Francis Eaton of the May-
flower family, the late Rev. Dr. Silvanus Hayward of
Globe Village, Massachusetts; of the family of John
Eaton of Dedham, Massachusetts, the late Prof. Daniel
C. Eaton of Yale University; of the family of John
Eaton of Salisbury and Haverhill, Massachusetts, the
late Rev. Dr. William Hadley Eaton; of the family of
Jonas Eaton of Reading, the late Mr. William L. Eaton
of Concord, Massachusetts; and of that of William
Eaton of Reading, the late Mr. Daniel A. Eaton of
Lowell, Massachusetts. Of the manuscripts compiled
by these men, the first, that prepared by Dr. Hayward,
is believed most unfortunately to have been destroyed;
that by Prof. Daniel C. Eaton is owned by his son.
Prof. George Eaton of New Haven; that by Dr. William
Hadley Eaton is in the vaults of the New England
Historic Genealogical Society in Boston, and in the
same safe custody are the manuscripts of Mr. William
L. Eaton of Concord, and Mr. Daniel L. Eaton of
Lowell. On the brothers, GovernorTheophilus,Nathaniel
and Samuel Eaton, sons of the Rev. Richard Eaton,
M. A., B.D., Oxford, Rector of Stony Stratford, Buck-
inghamshire, and Vicar successively of Holy Trinity,
Coventry, and of Great Budworth, Cheshire in succes-
sion to his father. Rev. Richard Eaton, Sr. (the son in
1607 appointed Prebendary of Lincoln Cathedral), much
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has been written. Theophilus Eaton, born probably in
1590, was an enterprising merchant with an important
training in mercantile affairs, who had spent three
years in Copenhagen, Denmark, in some influential busi-
ness position before he came to New England as first
governor of the New Haven Colony; his brother. Rev.
Samuel Eaton, also came to New Haven, but returned
to England in 1640, and had a living there. His brother
Nathaniel v/as in 1637 made teacher or master of the
young college at Cambridge, afterward Harvard, but
two years afterward left the college in ill repute and
was succeeded by Henry Dunster. Eaton afterward
went to Virginia, but finally returned to England, where
eventually he died. On the lives of these Eaton brothers
information can be obtained from the New England
Historical and Genealogical Register in several volumes,
the Papers of the New Haven Colony Historical So-
ciety, vol. 7, pages 1-33, and vol. 4, pages 185-192,
and the ^‘Yale Family” genealogy, pages 93, 95.
Of the five founders of permanent New England
families of Eatons, the early home of Francis of the
Mayflower is unknown, the county from which John of
Dedham came is Kent, the county from which John of
Salisbury and Haverhill migrated is undoubtedly Wilts,
the native home of Jonas of Reading is unknown, while
that of William of Reading was also Kent. Of these
five founders of permanent New England families, the
two who are known to have come from Kent may possi-
bly have been brothers, though so far as I know this
has never yet been proved. For valuable information
on the points I have here discussed, investigators may
look at the Report of the Fifth Annual Reunion of the
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Eaton Family Association, held at Boston, October 31,
1888, published under Prof. Daniel C. Eaton’s super-
vision in New Haven in 1888; and the Sixth Annual
Report published in 1891, under Professor Eaton’s edi-
torship, a few months after the Sixth Annual Reunion,
which was held at Boston August 19, 1890. These may
be seen in the Library of the New England Historic
Genealogical Society in Boston, and probably in other
libraries.
CHAPTER II
JOHN EATON OF WILTSHIRE, ENGLAND,
AND MASSACHUSETTS BAY
My own work as an active member of the Eaton
Family Association, while it lasted, was far from unim-
portant. The New England family we Nova Scotians
represent is that of John Eaton (and his wife Anne) of
Salisbury and Haverhill, for it is of that general family
that the Nova Scotia branch, to which we belong, is a
part. In 1885 I published in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in
the office of the Herald newspaper, a small volume of
one hundred and twenty-eight pages, entitled ‘‘Genea-
logical Sketch of the Nova Scotia Eatons,” which may
properly be said to be the only attempt at a complete
consecutive history in print of any family or branch
of a family in America bearing the Eaton name. The
book has marked limitations, particularly in its failure
to designate clearly by accomplished modern genea-
logical methods the successive generations with which
it deals, and the exact places occupied in the history
by the individual persons, men and women, who com-
pose those generations. My knowledge of genealogical
methods in that, to me, comparatively early time was
very imperfect, and unfortunately the many searchers
into the history of the Nova Scotia Eaton family who
along the years have had occasion to use my book
have been obliged to depend chiefly on the book’s
index to ascertain the immediate relations and the
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descent of any member of the family described, and
because of my defective arrangement of material have
necessarily had great difficulty in tracing the succes-
sive steps of people’s ancestry back to the founder of
the family in Nova Scotia and so to the original founder
of the family in Massachusetts from which, as I say,
the Nova Scotia branch has sprung.
John Eaton, founder of the American Eaton family
to which we of the Nova Scotia branch of this family
belong, so certainly came to Massachusetts in a group of
Wiltshire families that I have no hesitation in deter-
mining that his English home existed in the not remote
vicinity of Salisbury, in the county of Wilts. His
parentage or that of his wife, Anne, has never been
ascertained, nor has any search been made for it by
any genealogist there. We know that there were Eatons
in Wiltshire as early as the Domesday “Visitation”
(1086), and Burke in his General Armory recording the
many arms borne by ancient families bearing the simi-
lar names of Eaton, Eton, Etton, and Eyton, gives the
arms of an Eaton family of Wiltshire (the same as of
a certain Nottinghamshire family of “Chapell Bar”)
which are: Or, a fret azure. Crest, an eagle’s head
erased sable, in the beak a sprig vert. Motto, Vincit
omnia veritas.
In what vessel John Eaton, with his wife Anne and
six children, two sons and four daughters, came, we do
not know. He appears in Colchester, now Salisbury,
Massachusetts, near the mouth of the Merrimac River
“on ye 26th of ye 6th mo. 1640,” when there were
granted him “2 acres more or less for his house lotte,
lying between the house lotts of Mr. Samuel Hall and
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Ralfe Blesdale,” this lot being identified as lying about
a stone’s throw nearly south from the “town office.”
It is believed that John Eaton did not erect a house on
this lot, but that he lived upon his “planting lott”
granted him on “the 7th of the 9th mo. 1640,” con-
taining by estimation six acres more or less “lying
uppon ye great neck” having his house near the great
neck bridge on the beach road, this homestead prop-
erty, as stated by Dr. William Hadley Eaton, remaining
continuously in the Eaton family, John’s descendants,
until at least 1890, when it was commonly known as
“Brookside Farm.” In the spring of 1646, John Eaton
was chosen a grand juror and also one of the five
“Prudential men” to manage the town’s affairs, but
later in the same year he transferred his homestead
above to his elder son, John, Jr., “together with all his
rights and privileges as one of the proprietors in com-
mon” and removed with the rest of his family about
fifteen miles up the Merrimac River to Haverhill, where
he spent the rest of his life and died. He died, testate,
in Haverhill, October 29, 1668, aged about 73 years.
His wife, Anne, the mother of his children, died the
fifth of February, 1660, and John married again Novem-
ber 20, 1661, Mrs. Phebe Dow, widow of Thomas Dow
of Newbury, who lived after him until 1672.
Of John Eaton’s six children, five were married. His
youngest daughter, Hester, born about 1634, was not
married but died young. His three elder daughters,
Ann, Elizabeth and Ruth, became the wives respec-
tively of Lieut. George Brown of Haverhill, James Davis
of Haverhill, and Samuel Ingalls of Ipswich. The eldest
of his family was John, born in 1619, who married
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Martha Rowlandson of Ipswich, and lived in Salisbury;
the fifth was Thomas^, born about 1631, who lived in
Haverhill, his first wife being Martha Kent, who bore
him one child, Martha, who died young; his second,
Eunice Singletery, who bore him nine children. Of
these nine children, the fourth was a son, Jonathan^,
born April 23, 1668, who had a son James^ born
March 9, 1697, who had a son Davids born April i,
1729, who became the founder of the main branch of
the family in Nova Scotia. From Massachusetts, David^
removed in early life to eastern Connecticut, where he
married in his twenty-third year Deborah White of
Coventry, daughter of Thomas White of the well-known
Connecticut White family, to which in a late genera-
tion belonged the distinguished scholar and author,
Richard Grant White.
As my book, ‘Mhe Nova Scotia Eatons,” is acces-
sible in most of the leading libraries, it seems unneces-
sary to repeat here all the details concerning the Eatons
in Haverhill, and the Whites in Connecticut I have
given in the opening pages (7-13) of that book. In the
Sixth Annual Report of the Eaton Family Association,
published in 1891, recording the facts of the Sixth
Annual Reunion of the Association, held at Boston,
August 19, 1890, the late Rev. Dr. William Hadley
Eaton has given a careful genealogical account of the
first four generations of the family of John and Anne
Eaton, and these generations may be followed there.
The genealogical account of the family in later genera-
tions, Dr. Eaton left in manuscript, sadly incomplete
however in many lines, but still extremely valuable,
which rests safely in tin boxes in the vaults of the
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New England Historic Genealogical Society in Boston,
where, pretty carefully ordered by me, it may be exam-
ined through the courtesy of the library by any one
who cares to look at it. That it will ever come into
print seems at present a matter of grave doubt. In
that manuscript and in papers of my own connected
with it, as in various biographical encyclopedias, will
be found conspicuous mention of members of the family
of John and Anne Eaton not of the Nova Scotia branch,
as for instance Gen. John Eaton, at one time Commis-
sioner of Education for the United States, the Rev.
Dr. William Hadley Eaton of New Hampshire, and
my dear friend, who died far too early, the gifted
portrait painter, Wyatt Eaton, who stands deservedly
high in the historic ranks of painters in the United
States and Canada, and who in his lifetime was one of
the most charming personalities I have ever known.
On the removal of our ancestor, David Eaton, of the
fifth generation from John and Anne of Salisbury and
Haverhill, to Nova Scotia and the founding by him of
the main Nova Scotia Eaton family there, I have
written pretty fully in my ‘‘Genealogical Sketch of the
Nova Scotia Eatons,’’ but the historical migration of
New England people to Nova Scotia in which he and
his family went is not only of such importance to us
as a family, but is of such importance in the history of
New England and Canada generally, that I feel the
need of describing it in careful detail here.
On the occasion of an historical celebration and
pageant in King’s County, Nova Scotia, in 1928, as
the historian of this county I printed in two important
Nova Scotia newspapers, to deepen interest in the cele-
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bration, an account of the historical movement of the
eighteenth century in which David Eaton participated,
which went very far towards settling the Province of
Nova Scotia five years after the expulsion of the
Acadian French from their lands (in 1755). After some
slight description of the charm people generally find in
the Nova Scotia landscape and its historical associa-
tions, I wrote:
‘‘The historical associations of Nova Scotia have an
appealing charm. The French period of the Province
began with the arrival of DeMonts, the famous ex-
plorer, in 1604, when with the adventurous Champlain
and Poutrincourt he landed at Port Royal, as he called
what now is Annapolis Royal, and soon sailed up the
Bay of Fundy to Minas Basin; and ended only with the
expulsion of the Acadian population in 1755. In 1749,
Halifax was founded from the Mother Country, chiefly
by disbanded soldiers and sailors who had served in the
French wars; and in the wake of these English settlers
came first to Halifax and then permanently to Lunen-
burg a large group of Germans and French from the
continent of Europe. With the English settlers were
mixed also a not inconsiderable element of adventurous
Bostonians, who enthusiastically added their varied
energies to the newly established town. Indeed, there
has never been a time in the history of the Province
when the neighbor colony of Massachusetts Bay has
not been through migration for settlement or through
occasional commercial relations in close touch with this
Province, which through force of circumstances when
the Revolution came kept politically loyal to England,
whatever differences of political sympathy her people at
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large in their hearts may have felt. A name now seldom
remembered except by historians or the few influential
people in Boston who have his blood in their veins, is
that of Lt.-Col. Paul Mascarene, whose chief home was
in Boston and whose family always remained there, but
who spent much of his adventurous life at Annapolis
Royal in Nova Scotia in important government control
in the days between the final conquest of the Province
by Britain in 1710 and the founding of civil govern-
ment at Halifax through the agency of Col. Edward
Cornwallis in 1749. Along with Mascarene at Annap-
olis Royal, were other Bostonians, traders chiefly, some
of whom became conspicuous in the military council
and in conjunction with whom Mascarene wielded his
authority.
“The expansion of the population of New England
can hardly be said to have largely begun before the
Revolution, but it was to a conspicuous migration from
New England in 1760 that Nova Scotia owes what on
the whole, unless we except the several Scottish migra-
tions to the Province, the part of her population that
has been most influential in the past, and indeed is to
the present time. To the time and through the period
of the Revolution, the Province of New Brunswick,
which is connected with that of Nova Scotia by an
isthmus only a few miles wide, was part of Nova Scotia,
and these two provinces, with a small portion of Maine,
constituted the ancient French Province of Acadia,
which, with the sister Province of Canada, made the
great double dominion of France in the new world.
“In the middle of the eighteenth century, as part of
the determined plan of William Shirley, Governor of
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Massachusetts and Captain General of British forces
in America, completely to break French power wher-
ever France had strongholds on this continent, not only
was Louisburg, the ‘Dunkirk of America,’ on the island
of Cape Breton, finally destroyed, but the French pop-
ulation which still remained untroubled in Nova Scotia,
in spite of the fact that since early in the century the
whole Province of Acadia by treaty had passed into
England’s hands, had been as far as Governor Shirley,
and Charles Lawrence, the recently appointed Civil
Governor of Nova Scotia, could accomplish the task,
removed to other parts of the continent, their homes
being destroyed and their possessions passing under the
Nova Scotia government’s control. ‘The expulsion of
the Acadians,’ a drastic and to the Acadians themselves
hideously tragical event, which through Longfellow’s
musical poem Evangeline is known to all English-
speaking people, took place in 1755, and then Acadia,
named by its English conquerors Nova Scotia, was left
unpeopled except for the English settlers at Halifax
and the Continental group at Lunenburg, some thirty
miles southwestward of Halifax on the Atlantic shore.
“A plan more or less completely formed in the minds
of Shirley and the Halifax governor and council when
they removed the Acadians, contemplated the resettle-
ment of the depopulated French lands and other un-
settled lands in Nova Scotia with New England and
Middle Colony families whose loyalty to England would
be undoubted, and in 1758 the Governor of Nova Scotia
issued a proclamation in Boston and New York offer-
ing these lands for settlement. The proclamation, dated
October 12, 1758, reads: ‘Whereas by the late success
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of his A'lajesty’s arms in the reduction of Cape Breton
and its dependencies, as also by the demolition and
entire destruction of Gaspee, Meremachi, and other
French settlements on the Gulph of St. Lawrence, and
in the Saint John River in the Bay of Funday, the
enemy who have previously disturbed and harassed the
Province of Nova Scotia, and much obtruded its prog-
ress, have been compelled to retire and take refuge in
Canada, a favourable opportunity now presents for the
peopling and cultivating as well the land vacated by
the French as every other part of this valuable Prov-
ince. I have therefore thought fit with the advice of
Flis Majesty’s Council, to issue this proclamation declar-
ing that I shall be able to receive any proposals that
may be made hereafter to sue for effectually settling
the said vacated or any other lands within the Province
aforesaid, a description whereof, and the advantages
arising from their peculiar nature and situation, I have
ordered to be published with this proclamation.’
‘‘With the description went a declaration that pro-
posals for settlement would be received by Mr. Thomas
Fiancock, a prominent merchant of Boston, uncle of
John Fiancock, and Messrs. Delancey and Watts of
New York, and before long important groups of people
of respectability and worth in Massachusetts, Rhode
Island, Connecticut, New York and Philadelphia were
stirred to make inquiries of the Governor concerning
points which his proclamation and description had not
touched. His Excellency was asked to state clearly the
nature of the Constitution of the Province, the pro-
tection which would be afforded to the civil and reli-
gious liberties of settlers, and the extent of the elective
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franchise which would be given them. Lawrence, there-
fore, with the Council, issued another proclamation
which contained assurances which satisfied the inquir-
ers, these assurances constituting, as has not inaptly
been said, the Charter of Nova Scotia liberties for all
subsequent time.
‘‘The interest that these proclamations aroused in
the American colonies to the southward has not left
very conspicuous record in these colonies, but as Eaton’s
‘History of King’s County’ shows. Miss Caulkins in her
well-known history of New London says a good deal
about the interest in eastern Connecticut, and Macy’s
history of Nantucket also makes mention of the inter-
est aroused by it in that part of Massachusetts.
“Before very long, in at least eastern Connecticut,
formal action was taken to send agents to view the
lands, and these were empowered to obtain grants for
large groups of people whom the agents represented who
had signified their willingness to remove permanently
to Nova Scotia. The interest of people in migrating
was indeed throughout New England pretty widespread.
Massachusetts, especially Essex County, seems to have
had great enthusiasm for going; New London, Connect-
icut, the chief Rhode Island towns about Narragansett“
Bay, important sections of Cape Cod, and the Island of
Nantucket were stirred by the project, and the result
in a short time was that between six and eight thou-
sand of these people, mostly of course intending plant-
ers, of a very high class and connected prominently with
families long and influentially known in the colonies in
which the planters had grown up, having chartered
vessels or sailed in their own ships, were distributed for
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final settlement in newly formed counties all about the
Bay of Fundy and Minas Basin, on the southwestern
shore of the Province, near the Isthmus of Chignecto,
in Cumberland County, and in New Brunswick, espe-
cially along the River St. John.
“In a census of the Province (including what is now
New Brunswick and the Island of Cape Breton and
Prince Edward Island) made in 1766 we find ‘Ameri-
cans’ given as constituting about half of the entire
population of 13,374, and if we add to this number
the population of two townships, Truro and Onslow,
which is ranked as Irish, but means Scotch-Irish from
Londonderry, New Hampshire, we shall see that New
Englanders in the Maritime Provinces in 1766 num-
bered considerably more than the people of all other
nationalities combined. In the Nova Scotia towns of
Amherst, Annapolis, Barrington, Chester, Cumberland,
Granville, Liverpool, Maugerville, Onslow (in part),
Sackville, Wilmot, and Yarmouth, the settlers were
chiefly from Massachusetts, from towns as widely scat-
tered as Barnstable, Brimfield, Brookfield, Byfield,
Cambridge, Dorchester, Dudley, Groton, Haverhill,
Lunenburg, Malden, Marlborough, Medfield, Medford,
Mendon, Palmer, Plympton, Reading, Sherborn, Shir-
ley, Taunton, Westborough, Woburn, Worcester and
Wrentham. In King’s County, in the two towns of
Horton and Cornwallis, the settlers were from the
eastern Connecticut towns of Bolton, Canterbury, Col-
chester, Danbury, East Haddam, Fairfield, Greenwich,
Groton, Guilford, Hebron, Killingworth, Lebanon,
Lyme, Middle Haddam, New London, Norwich, Pres-
ton, Saybrook, Stonington, Tolland, Wallingford, Wind-
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ham and Windsor. In Hants County, the people came
from Rhode Island — East and West Greenwich, Little
Compton, Middleton, Newport, North and South
Kingston, Portsmouth and Norwich, The people of
Truro and in part Onslow, Colchester County, were
largely Scotch-Irish who had been settled for at least
a generation at and near Londonderry, New Hampshire.
‘‘Of vital interest to the writer of this paper is this
historic migration of New Englanders to Nova Scotia,
for he had in the migration no less than five great-great-
grandfathers and their New England wives, with part
of their children, these bearing the familiar Massachu-
setts and eastern Connecticut names, Eaton, Bliss,
DeWolf, Rand, and Starr. For a great many years,
ever since he came to Harvard to study, along with his
cousin. Dr. Benjamin Rand, of Harvard University,
who more fully than any one else has coherently and
in detail reviewed the facts of the migration, this writer
has served as a medium in introducing searchers in
family history in Massachusetts to the historical sources
in Nova Scotia on which they might draw, and these
searchers have been constantly increasing in number.
“In reviewing this migration of New Englanders to
Nova Scotia, especially those of them who sailed up
the Bay of Fundy into Minas Basin and anchored
either near the Isthmus of Chignecto, or rounding the
bold cliff of Blomidon came on shore at the mouth of
the Avon River, where Windsor now is, or at Starr’s
Point, in Cornwallis, one cannot help letting one’s imag-
ination play on the scene of beautiful upland landscape,
and wide sweep of alluvial meadow, over which the red
Fundy tide swept daily, leaving its wealth of rich silty
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deposit over all the marvellous expanses of what the
French called and we call the Grand Pre. One cannot
help entering into the enthusiasm of the planters as
they saw the changing cloud-lights on the Basin and
the filmy white mists that at sunrise enveloped the
North and South mountains, sister ranges of hills fac-
ing each other smilingly all through the Annapolis
Valley, and giving protection from blasting winds to
the fertile farms that the Acadians had tilled. One
must, however, know from personal experience the
magical charm of this region to be able fully to appre-
ciate what the planters felt as they came to their new
homes.
“This summer for the first time in the County of
King’s, as we have shown settled almost exclusively
from eastern Connecticut, as the adjoining Minas Basin
County of Hants was settled from Rhode Island, and
the Counties of Annapolis and Cumberland were settled
from Massachusetts, a conspicuous celebration is to be
held with a pageant representing the coming to King’s
County of the planters who received here lands formerly
belonging to the Acadians and whose homes were built
on the sites or in the near vicinity of the Acadians’
homes. To this celebration will come loyal descendants
by scores of men and women who have left the Province
to pursue useful activities in the United States, from
which, before the Revolution, their ancestors came.
These men are to be found in influential positions every-
where about the American Continent, as of course not-
ably in Northwestern Canada, and in British Columbia,
not a few of them, tired of the snows of winter, dwelling
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23
in comfort in California on the genial Southern Pacific
Coast.
‘^To mention in this article names of conspicuous
Nova Scotians of New England stock in the United
States who have made for themselves notable positions
here and are so serving as worthy links between the
land their ancestors migrated from and the little Prov-
ince-by-the-Sea to which they went, might seem invidi-
ous, but there are many of them and their sturdy and
often brilliant qualities and the loyal services they are
rendering year after year to the country of their adop-
tion are perfectly well known.
‘‘If this paper on the people of Nova Scotia were to
be extended to greater length we should have to speak
not only of the New Englanders who in 1760 came to
the Province but of the important migrations of Scots,
whose influence in Nova Scotia has done most in certain
counties, like Pictou, to mould the people’s institutions
and give color to their thought, but the chief purpose
of this paper is to commemorate the people and their
activities who came from New England in 1760. In the
minds of men not very well instructed in Nova Scotia
history there is sometimes confusion as to who in the
Province were pre-Loyalists from New England, and
who came from New England and other more southern
colonies as Tories at the time of the American Revolu-
tion, for between 1775 and 1782 no less than from thirty
to thirty-five thousand of the latter poured into Nova
Scotia, becoming the chief settlers of what is now the
Province of New Brunswick. Throughout Nova Scotia,
however, in spite of the fact that Halifax, Shelburne,
Guysborough, Digby, and other counties received many
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Loyalist emigrants, the destinies of Nova Scotia have
been chiefly controlled and today are chiefly controlled,
wherever Scottish influence does not strongly prevail,
by the influence of the New Englanders who came in
1760. In our ‘History of King’s County,’ a book widely
known, we have sought to show how in this one county,
a very important one for illustrating the fact, the New
England planters brought with them and firmly estab-
lished in the Province the various institutions like the
Town Meeting and the Congregational religious polity
of their earlier homes. Of the churches they founded
all were of the Congregational order, though some few
people of them in a short time were intelligently able
to conform to the Church of England and give their
allegiance to that historic body. At the present time,
as for three or four generations now, the Baptist denom-
ination has great strength in Nova Scotia, but for long
after the migration, the New England ancestors of these
Baptist people were Calvinistic Congregationalists of
the early New England type. What led them to become
Baptists was in part the influence of an emotional
‘revival’ like the ‘New Light’ revival in New Eng-
land of the eighteenth century, in part the ‘funda-
mentalist’ conception of Scripture and the primitive
institutions of the Christian Church that the earliest
Puritan planters of New England almost without excep-
tion held and taught. But in any intelligent movement
for education, and for popular government, as Judge
Savary in the History of Annapolis County says of the
representatives to the Provincial Legislature from that
county, the New England people generally in Nova
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25
Scotia ^were always at the front in every parliamentary
movement for genuine reform.’
‘‘Today all over the United States, as we have said,
are scattered useful representatives of the New Eng-
land people who went to Nova Scotia in 1760. In the
communities where they live they are respected and
liked, and not a few of them have risen to places of
distinction and power. New England gave their ances-
tors to the beautiful Province-by-the-Sea, to which
these ancestors carried the progressive spirit of their
early homes, and now as is only natural their sons and
daughters are coming back to the early homes, and
here, in the east and further west on the continent, are
lending the weight of their influence ably to every enter-
prise that their relatives here have initiated for the
promotion of the welfare of human kind.’
CHAPTER III
DAVID EATON OF HAVERHILL; AND
CORNWALLIS, NOVA SCOTIA
David*^ Eaton of the fifth generation from John and
Anne of Salisbury and Haverhill was born in Haver-
hill, April I, 1729, his descent being James^ Jonathan^,
Thomas^, Johnd In the summer or autumn of 1.75 1, I
believe, he removed to Tolland, Connecticut, and
October 10 of that year married Deborah White of the
neighboring town of Coventry. In the spring or early
summer, probably, of 1761, between the births of his sixth
and seventh child, he removed, most likely embarking
at New London, to Nova Scotia, where he settled in
Cornwallis in the County of Kings. His wife Deborah,
mother of all his children, who was born May 19, 1732,
died May 20, 1790, and the twenty-third of December
following he married, second, Mrs. Alice (English)
Willoughby, widow of Dr. Samuel Willoughby, a physi-
cian who had come from Connecticut with the earliest
settlers and had practised medicine in Cornwallis until
his death. Of the time of the second Mrs. Eaton’s
death or her place of burial I have no knowledge; she
may have been buried beside Dr. Willoughby in the
burying ground at ‘‘Chipman’s Corner” in Cornwallis,
where the first meeting house of the Congregational
body in Cornwallis, this afterward passing to the Pres-
byterians, stood. David Eaton died in Cornwallis at
his house on Canard Street (near “Hamilton’s Corner”)
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27
July 17, 1803, and was buried in the small burying
ground, where at least his first wife, Deborah, was also
buried. He belonged, as did all his family at the time of
his death, to the Congregational body, in which he had
been reared.
In my “Nova Scotia Eatons,” pages 10-12, I have
given facts of interest connected with David Eaton’s
early life in Haverhill, and in Connecticut after he
removed there, as also in Nova Scotia after 1760, that
it is not necessary to repeat here. My “History of King’s
County, Nova Scotia,” a book of nearly nine hundred
pages, published in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1910, the
most complete history of any county in Nova Scotia,
to be found in libraries generally which contain many
books of local history, as well as this genealogical vol-
ume, gives most of the chief facts connected with the
settlement of Mr. Eaton and his fellow planters in the
County of King’s. The settlement was made system-
atically and after due investigation by agents sent from
Connecticut, and while some settlers in Cornwallis for
one reason or another received only half a share, three
hundred and thirty-three and a third acres, and a few
one share and a half, a thousand acres, the large ma-
jority received a share apiece, six hundred and sixty-
six and two-thirds acres. This was the amount David
Eaton received. How much he may subsequently have
increased his property I do not know, but from his will,
which he made July 8, 1803, bequeathing largely to his
seven living sons and four daughters, we see that he
had increased his property to some extent by purchase,
as also that he had at different times sold land to other
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men. (The full text of his will is given in my ‘^Nova
Scotia Eatons,” pages 19-22.)
In my survey of the Eaton Family in Nova Scotia
in this volume I have had to confine myself almost
entirely to the descendants of David Eaton, but it is
an interesting and to us important fact that a little
later than his removal to Cornwallis, a nephew of his.
Dr. Daniel Eaton, a young physician, of the sixth gen-
eration in Flaverhill, a son of Timothy Eaton, David’s
brother (a man of much local distinction in Flaverhill),
in 1790 came to Nova Scotia, possibly to visit his
uncle’s family, in Cornwallis, and instead of returning
to Massachusetts, settled at Onslow, Nova Scotia, in
Colchester County, and there married 9 December,
1791, Esther (McLellan) Cater, widow of William
Cater, a young, attractive widow with comfortable
means, and started a family which has had and now
has members of conspicuous position in Canada and
abroad. The children of Dr. Daniel and Esther Eaton
were four: William Cater, born 9 October, 1792, who
married Lucy Smith; Phebe, born 16 March, 1795,
married to a Judge Wheaton of New Brunswick (prob-
ably of the Supreme Court of that Province), and had
children: Daniel, Jr., born 19 September, 1797, married
Mary Ann Clark; James, born i April, 1801. Dr.
Eaton’s stay in Nova Scotia could not have lasted
many years. The first public mention of him in Onslow
is in a deed he and his wife Esther (administratrix of
the estate of Esther’s late husband, William Cater) gave
on the eleventh of September, 1795. But at some period
in his married life Dr. Eaton left the Province for a
visit to Fiaverhill, and from there went to Philadelphia,
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where he died in 1808. In 1815, his widow was mariied
for the third time to Capt. Simon Kollock, late of the
British forces in the American Revolution. Mrs. Kol-
lock died in Truro 19 September, 1863. A grandson of
Dr. DanieE Eaton, Cyrus^ Eaton, son of DanieE, Jr.,
born 10 April, 1836, was in his lifetime twice mayor
of Truro; he and his wife are buried in the Truro ceme-
tery. James Killer^ Eaton, Civil Engineer (William
Cater", Dr. DanieE), born 15 February, 1838, married
2 January, 1862, Anna King Pitblado and had a large
family, three sons of which have had distinguished
careers in the military forces of the British Colonial
Empire. First, Lt.-Col. Daniel Isaac Vernon Eaton, of
the Royal Canadian Horse Artillery, born at Truro,
Nova Scotia, 19 September, 1869, married at Frederic-
ton, New Brunswick, 7 December, 1898, Myra Fitz
Randolph, younger daughter of the Hon. Archibald
Fitz Randolph of Fredericton, and has two daughters:
Helen Moira, born 22 September, 1899; Evelyn Sybil
Mary, born 22 December, 1902. In ‘‘Notes on Canadian
Officers,” in an issue of a Canadian periodical April 21,
1917, Colonel Eaton’s service to the Empire was de-
scribed as follows: “Lt.-Col. Vernon Eaton, R. C. H. A.,
died of wounds at a casualty-clearing station in France
on April ii of wounds received in action on April 8.
Colonel Eaton was sent by the Geological Survey to
Labrador with Mr. A. P. Low, and helped to prepare
the first official maps of Labrador. In July, 1896, after
commanding the Ottawa Field Battery with the rank
of major, he entered the Permanent Corps. He served
through the South African war, first as captain of a
battery, and afterwards as major (second in command)
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of a battalion of Mounted Rifles, and he was also for
a time on General Baden-Powell’s staff. At the con-
clusion of the war he was specially recommended for
the Staff College by Lord Roberts, he having previous
to the war passed the entrance examination. He was
the first officer from any of the Overseas Forces to
enter the Staff College. His work there was so satis-
factory that at the end of the course he received the
offer of a Staff appointment in the Imperial Service,
which, however, he refused, feeling that his first duty
lay to his own country. He was Director of Military
Training in the Dominion from 1905 to 1911. Shortly
before the outbreak of the War in 1914 a Staff Course
was held at Esquimault, at which Colonel Eaton was
the senior instructor. ... In 1916, after serving at the
Front with the Royal Canadian Horse Artillery, he was
recalled to England to train the 3d Canadian Divi-
sional Artillery. He returned to the Front in command
of a brigade of artillery, and was mentioned in des-
patches in January, 1917. Colonel Eaton is the first
senior officer of the Canadian Permanent Force to be
killed in the war. He married a daughter of the late
Hon. Archibald Fitz Randolph of Fredericton, N. B.,
and is survived by his widow and two daughters.” He
won several distinguished medals, and his death was
recognized conspicuously by the King. He is buried
in Barlin Cemetery, near Amiens, France.
Of Colonel Eaton’s daughters, Helen Moira, the elder,
was married in London 20 December, 1922, to Sir John
Lindsay Dashwood, Baronet, of the Dashwoods of West
Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, born 25 April, 1896, suc-
ceeded his father. Sir Robert John Dashwood in 1908.
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Sir John and Lady Dashwood have issue: Maud Helen
Sarah, born 23 February, 1923; Francis John Vernon,
born 7 August, 1925. The arms of the Dashwoods of
West Wycombe are: Argent, on a fesse double cotised
gules, three griffins’ heads erased or. Crest, a griffin’s
head erased per fesse, erminois and gules. Motto, Pro
magna charta. Seat, West Wycombe Park, Bucks.
Clubs of Sir John Dashwood, St. James and Caledonian.
Col. Vernon Eaton’s second daughter, Evelyn Sybil
Mary, is known as a writer. Mrs. Vernon Eaton resides
at Mill End House, High Wycombe.
The next younger brother of Col. Vernon Eaton is
Lt.-Col. Robert Barry Eaton, M.P.P., now in civil
life at Craigmyle, Alberta. His military career began
in the South African War, 1899-1902, in which he won
the King’s medal, two clasps or bars, and the Queen’s
medal, four clasps. He served in the ist Canadian
Mounted Rifles and the South African Constabulary.
Again, in the World War, 1914-1918, he was twice
wounded and won the General Service medal and the
Victory medal. He served as major in the 50th Alberta
Regiment, C. E. F. He was born at Truro i August,
1871, and married in Toronto, 25 March, 1901, Violet
May Gordon, daughter of Com. Andrew R. Gordon,
R. N., and granddaughter of Sir Melville Parker, Bart.
He has several children.
The third and youngest brother of this distinguished
Eaton family is Lt.-Col. Edwin K. Eaton, now retired
from military life and living at Windsor, Nova Scotia.
He was born at Truro, ii May, 1878, and married
II December, 1912, Edith Marguerite Layton, daughter
of George Boardman Layton, Esq. He has two sons:
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Kenelm Edwin, born 8 October, 1913, at Toronto;
Vernon, born at Halifax, N. S., 5 March, 1918, both
receiving their education in the King’s College Prepara-
tory School at Windsor. Col. Edwin Eaton, like his
brothers, has had a varied and highly interesting mili-
tary career. He received his military training at the
Royal Military College, Canada, passed successfully
through the ranks of Lieutenant, Captain, Major and
Major 2d in Command, to Lieutenant-Colonel, and was
Adjutant in the Royal Canadian Regiment at Quebec,
Brigade Major of the Nova Scotia Highland Brigade,
and Assistant Adjutant General in charge of the Admin-
istration Military District No. 10 at Winnipeg, Mani-
toba. He served successively at London and Toronto,
Ontario, Quebec City, Halifax and Winnipeg. He was
selected interchange officer to India, where he attended
King George Fifth’s Durbar at Delhi, and at His
Majesty’s Reception, and had important command else-
where in India. He was at Bermuda in 1914-1915, and
during the first months of the Great War, and then
accompanied the Royal Canadian Regiment to Eng-
land and France, serving as Major commanding C Com-
pany and 2d in Command of the Regiment and tem-
porary Commander. He was transferred to the staff
and soon was invalided to England and to Canada. He
returned to England as Brigade Major of the Nova
Scotia Highland Brigade and served on the Instruc-
tional Staff for a time. He received, like his brothers,
the A4ons Star, the General Service medal and the
Victory medal. After this long, varied service he re-
turned to civil life, when he was for a time employed
on engineering railway construction and surveying.
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33
This Eaton family are naturally members of the
Anglican Communion.
Another notable descendant of the family of Dr.
Daniel® Eaton, as he is also through his mother of the
family of David® Eaton of Cornwallis, Dr. Daniel’s
uncle, is John EdgaH® Eaton (David Hamilton^,
Daniel^ DanieH, Dr. Daniel®), son of David Hamilton®
Eaton, his mother being Caroline Matilda® (Eaton), of
the Cornwallis family as we have said. Mr. Eaton, who
is an eminent lawyer of Boston, was born at Truro,
Nova Scotia, 26 February, 1871, and graduated B.A.
at Acadia University in 1890, and Harvard University
in 1893. He then studied at the Harvard Law School,
from which he was graduated LL.B. in 1896. In 1895
he was admitted to the Massachusetts Bar, and in
1898 to practise in United States Courts. He has always
practised in Boston, where he has offices at 148 State
Street. He is director in several business corporations,
and his special practice has been in corporation law.
His home is at 10 Whittemore Street, Highland Station,
Boston. He is past-master Constellation Lodge, A. F.
& A.M., Dedham, Mass., a Knight Templar, a member
of Aleppo Temple, and also a member of local Boston
clubs.
Mr. Eaton married 20 March, 1897, Anna M. Hatha-
way of Oneonta, New York.
Children:
i. Ruth Hathaway^^, b. 6 June, 1898; married in 1923 to
Ralph S. Richardson (Harvard, 1915), and has a
daughter, Anne Richardson, born 16 January, 1926.
They now live in Paris, France.
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ii. John Edgar, Jr., born 8 March, 1901; B.A. Harvard,
1923; LL.B., Boston University, 1927; admitted to the
Massachusetts Bar, April, 1928 (and previously in
March, 1928 to the Maine Bar). He is now in practice
with his father at 148 State Street. (Both Ruth Hatha-
way and John Edgar were baptized as children into the
Episcopal Church by Rev. William F. Cheney, Rector
of the parish of East Dedham, Massachusetts.)
From my genealogical review of the successive gen-
erations of the descendants of David^ Eaton, in the
following pages, it will be seen that the family founded
in Cornwallis, Nova Scotia, spread early from King’s
County into Annapolis and Cumberland, and it will be
seen that from not only King’s but Annapolis, and more
especially Cumberland, have gone forth into the larger
world of America brilliant men whom I am glad to call
my kinsmen, and of whom Nova Scotia at large has great
reason to be increasingly proud. Of the ‘‘Pugwash
Eatons,” the family is nobly represented by Cyrus
Stephen Eaton, of Cleveland, Ohio, one of the most
charming personalities in the modern world, and one of
the most remarkable financiers of the United States, a
man originating and controlling tremendous financial
and industrial enterprises, and yet who in all his activ-
ities is moved by high motives and a conscientious desire
to promote the true welfare of the human world; the
Hon. Dr. Charles Aubrey Eaton of New Jersey, widely
known as an influential member of the United States
Congress, and as the supreme head of the Welfare De-
partment of the great General Electric Corporation of
America; and the Hon. William Robb Eaton, of Denver,
Colorado, an eminent lawyer, member also of the United
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States Congress, to which he has lately been elected,
and a powerful influence in at least the State of Colo-
rado’s most important affairs.
It is a matter of regret to me that in this volume I
have not been able to follow every family whose origin
is indicated here, to its utmost limit. Of the New
Zealand branches of the family, founded at Auckland
by Levi Woodworth^ (Amos^, Stephen®, David®) and by
his brother Alpheus®, both I believe merchants and per-
haps shipowners in Auckland, I have no present means
of getting detailed information, and with certain other
branches in the United States and in Nova Scotia I
am obliged through lack of information to stop very
short in my record, but at least there is no descendant
of David® Eaton alive who cannot help finding sufficient
information in my book to enable him to trace himself
clearly to John Eaton of Haverhill, the founder of our
family in this western world.
In this volume, which is primarily one giving con-
secutive genealogical information concerning the Nova
Scotia Eaton family, from intimate knowledge of its
members in general I cannot help, however, giving em-
phatic testimony to the high character of the family at
large. The New England families indeed that went to
Nova Scotia in 1760 have generally in all their branches
shown strong sense of morality and in themain of religious
feeling. For the most part, wherever they have lived,
the Eatons have allied themselves with churches and
have sought through the worship of those churches to
keep alive and increase the religious spirit that they
have imbibed in their homes and through the various
religious communities to which their parents have intro-
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duced them. At the present time the Nova Scotia
Eatons are to be found as earnest members of not only
all the various leading non-liturgical Christian denomi-
nations, but many of them as enthusiastic worshippers
at the altars of the great, wise, inclusive Anglican Com-
munion, from which their earliest founder in New Eng-
land, with so many others, unhappily severed himself in
leaving England in the seventeenth century for the
shores of Massachusetts Bay.
CHAPTER IV
SIXTH GENERATION
I. David^ Eaton {James^^ Jonathan^ ^ Thomas'^ ^
Joh'n})^ born i April, 1729, married (i) 10 October,
1751, Deborah White, daughter of Thomas and Sarah
(Miller) White of Middletown Upper Houses, East
Middletown, Lebanon, and Coventry, Connecticut (he
a great-grandson of Elder John White of Massachu-
setts and Connecticut, associated with Rev. Thomas
Hooker).
Children, born in Tolland, Connecticut:
i. Susannah®, born 26 September, 1752, died 18 October,
1761, in Cornwallis.
2. ii. Stephen, born 29 January, 1754
iii. Timothy, born 17 July, 1755, died in infancy in Tolland.
3. iv. Elisha, born 8 January, 1757.
4. V. Timothy, born 27 August, 1758.
vi. Elijah, born 29 May, 1760, died 15 August, 1761 in Corn-
wallis, Nova Scotia.
Born in Cornwallis, Nova Scotia:
vii. Sarah, born 13 February, 1762; married 23 September,
1784 to Abel Strong, who died 9 July, 1844 (see Strong
Family Genealogy). To him she bore nine children:
Elizabeth; Mary; Deborah; David; Abel; Stephen;
Cynthia or Huldah; Sarah; Alice. Mrs. Strong died
12 July, 1827.
5. viii. Elijah, born 16 October, 1763.
6. ix. David, born 13 July, 1765.
7. X. James, born 14 August, 1767.
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xi. Susannah, 24 June, 1769, died 17 January, 1841; married
by Rev. William Twining, 19 December, 1793 to Capt.
Harry Cox, who died 22 June, 1838, in his seventieth
year. To him she bore nine children: Paulina; Harry;
George; Samuel; Arthur; Susannah; John; Judah; Gar-
land.
xii. Deborah, born 6 January, 1771, died ii April, 1829;
married 17 May, 1792 to John Manning, M.P.P., of
Falmouth, Hants County, who died 5 November, 1858,
aged 95. To him she bore ten children: Joseph; Mar-
garet; Benjamin; Nancy; Thomas; Elizabeth; Edward;
John; Walter; Sarah Jane.
8. xiii. John, born 29 May, 1773.
xiv. Prudence, born 13 October, 1774; married 31 October,
1793 John Wells, M.P.P., magistrate for sixty years
and representative to the Legislature for twenty-two
years. To him she bore eight children: Judah; Matilda;
Asenath; Eunice; Sophia; Prudence; Mary Jane; John
Newton. The Wellses were one of King’s County’s
most prominent families.
XV. Amos, born 9 September, 1778, died by an accident,
April, 1784.
2. Stephen® Eaton (David’^, James^^ Jonathan^,
Thomas'^, Johrd)^ son of David and Deborah (White)
Eaton, born in Tolland, Connecticut, 29 January, 1754,
married 23 November, 1775, Elizabeth Woodworth,
daughter of Thomas and Zerviah Woodworth of Corn-
wallis. ITe died 20 April, 1838. She died 28 March,
1841. Both are buried at Hamilton’s Corner.
Children:
9. i. Jacob^, born 31 March, 1776.
ii. Zerviah, born 31 March, 1779; married 30 September,
1802 to Marchant Rand.
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iii. Rebecca, born 21 April, 1781; married ii November, 1802
to Alpheus Harris.
iv. Olive, born 12 January, 1782, died 29 August, 1784.
V. Deborah, born 6 August, 1783, died 6 September, 1784.
10. vi. Amos, born 28 July, 1785.
11. vii. Nathan, born 9 June, 1787.
viii. Elizabeth, born 18 August, 1789, died 28 January, 1808.
12. ix. Stephen, born 23 March, 1792.
X. Nancy, born 14 November, 1795; married (i) 15 June,
1815, to Richard Smith; (2) to William Rand; (3)
to Wood.
3. Elisha® Eaton {David^^ James^^ Jonathan^^
Thomas^, John^), son of David and Deborah (White)
Eaton, born 8 January, 1757, married 31 May, 1779,
Irene Bliss, daughter of Nathaniel and Eunice (Fish)
Bliss, born 4 January, 1761. He died 9 March, 1827.
She died 2 June, 1826. Irene Bliss’s father, Nathaniel,
was born at Lebanon, Connecticut, 5 August, 1736, and
removed with his family to Cornwallis ‘‘about 1760.”
See the Bliss Family Genealogy, and “The Nova Scotia
Eatons,” pages 25-27. Elisha and Irene (Bliss) Eaton
are buried in the cemetery at Upper Canard, Corn-
wallis, where tombstones record their deaths, his 9
March, 1827, hers 2 June, 1826.
Children:
13. i. Dan^, born 2 March, 1780.
14. ii. Enoch, born 22 September, 1781.
15. iii. Elisha, born 30 June, 1783.
16. iv. William, born 20 April, 1786.
V. Lydia, born 3 February, 1788; married i January, 1806
to Worden Barnaby, son of Timothy and Elizabeth
Barnaby. She died ii September, 1815. He died 14
February, 1859, aged 74. They are buried at Upper
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Canard. They had children: Elisha, born i January,
1807; Eliza Irene, born 8 October, 1808; Timothy, born
14 June, 1811; Hopested, born 18 July, 1813; George
Eaton, born 25 August, 1815.
17. vi. George, born 6 April, 1790.
18. vii. David, born 25 September, 1792.
viii. John, born 27 February, 1795, died unmarried at the home
of his sister, Eunice Deborah, 9 July, 1866.
ix. Eunice Deborah, born 14 July, 1798; married 13 May,
1819 to her first cousin Ward Eaton, son of John and
Tabitha Rand Eaton. See “The Nova Scotia Eatons”
and various monographs by me, as also my “History of
King’s County.”
19. X. James, born 16 May, 1802.
4. Timothy® Eaton (David^, James'^, Jonathan^ ^
Thomas’^, Johv})^ son of David and Deborah (White)
Eaton, born 27 August, 1758, married (i) 25 October,
1781, Fluldah Woodworth, daughter of Thomas and
Zerviah Woodworth. She died 14 July, 1807, and Tim-
othy married (2) 17 December, 1807, Mrs. Sarah (Rand)
Beckwith. He died July, 1834.
Children, by first wife:
i. Ruth^ Ann, born 17 October, 1784; married (i) 5 March,
1802 to John Cogswell, to whom she bore four children;
(2) to John George Hilpert, to whom she bore two
children. She died in 1828. For her children see “The
Nova Scotia Eatons,” page 28.
ii. Alice, born 27 September, 1786; married 14 May, 1807 to
Levi Wells. She died, s.p., in 1809 or 1810.
iii. Olive, born 3 September, 1788; married 23 November,
1807 to Joseph Rsockwell, and bore eleven children.
See “The Nova Scotia Eatons,” page 28.
20. iv. Gideon, born 21 June, 1791.
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V. Sarah S., born 23 April, 1797; married 24 January, 1816
to James Bragg, to whom she bore six children. She
died 3 June, 1831.
21. vi. Timothy, Jr., born 23 July, 1800.
vii. Sophia, born 9 December, 1802; married 23 January, 1823
to William Henry Getchell. She died, s.p., 15 January,
1883.
5. Elijah^ Eaton {David^, James'^^ Jonathan^^
Thomas^ ^ JohTd), son of David^ and Deborah (White)
Eaton, born 16 October, 1763, married 2 May, 1785,
Elizabeth Rand, daughter of Caleb and Mary Rand,
born in 1766. He lived at Bass Creek, now called Med-
ford, on Minas Basin. He died about 1816; his wife
died 15 October, 1852. They are buried in a small
burying ground at Medford, but it is said without
tombstones.
Children:
22. i. Ebenezer^, born 9 April, 1786.
23. ii. Caleb, born 15 November, 1787.
iii. Susannah, born 8 January, 1790; married (i) 27 January,
1812 to Peter Rand, and had seven children who lived
to grow up; (2) to Kilcup; (3) to Green; (4)
to Morris.
iv. Deborah, born ; married 12 January, 1814 to Noah
Rockwell, and had ten children who grew up.
V. Prudence, born ; married 7 October, 1818 to John
Starr, son of Joseph Starr, and had four children, three
of whom grew up. One daughter was married to Arthur
Cox. See Starr Family Genealogy.
vi- Elizabeth, born ; married 27 November, 1817 to
Charles Calkins, and had children.
vii Charlotte, born ; married 26 June, 1817 to Joseph
Farrin, and had five children who grew up.
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viii. Rebecca, born ; married to Hugh McAlmond, and
had four children who grew up.
ix. Melinda, born ; married (i) to George Bennett; (2)
to William Bishop, and had children by both husbands.
X. Mary Ann, born ; married 20 September, 1826 to
Jeremiah Tupper, and had four daughters who grew up.
xi. Elijah, Jr., born ; died about the time of his father’s
death, aged twelve or thirteen.
24. xii. Elisha, born — 1808.
xiii. Alice Jane, born 23 November, 1809; married 5 May,
1829 to John Sanford of Medford, and had five children.
She was living, the last of her parents’ children, in
1884.
6. David® Eaton {David^^ James^, Jonathan^,
Thomas^ ^ Johi^), son of David® and Deborah (White)
Eaton, born 13 July, 1765, married 17 January, 1788,
Eunice Wells, daughter of Judah and Ann Wells, and
sister of John Wells, M.P.P., who married Prudence®
Eaton. He died in 1830. His wife died — December,
1850,
Children:
25-
26.
27.
ii.
iii.
iv.
V.
Guy, born 15 October, 1788.
Emily, born 29 January, 1791; married 22 November,
1812 to John Rockwell, and had children, some of
whom became well known.
Judah, born 25 December, 1792.
David, 3d, born 2 February, 1795.
Eunice, born 29 August, 1798; married (i) 12 March,
1823 to James Cogswell, son of Mason and Lydia Cogs-
well, to whom she bore one son, John Leander Cogs-
well, well known in Halifax and Kentville; (2) to Eben-
ezer Kinsman.
Ann, born 28 May, 1801; married 24 January, 1821 to
Benjamin Ells.
VI.
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vii. Asenath, born 3 September, 1803; married 28 November,
1827 to Gurdon Rand.
viii. Prudence, born 25 January, 1806; married to James
Sivright, and removed with her family to Illinois. See
‘‘The Nova Scotia Eatons,” page 31.
ix. Eliza, born 19 July, 1810; married after her sister Ann’s
death to Benjamin Ells.
28. X. Levi Wells, born 10 December, 1812.
7. James® Eaton (David^^ James^^ Jonatha'n}^
Thomas‘S y John^), son of David® and Deborah (White)
Eaton, born 14 August, 1767; married (i) probably in
1793, Nancy Manning, daughter of Peter Manning of
Falmouth, Plants County, Nova Scotia, and sister of
John Manning, M.P.P., husband of James’ sister,
Deborah Eaton. His wife, Nancy, died probably —
December, 1798, and he married — June, 1799, Lucy
Farnsworth, who surviving him, was married (2) 24
November, 1814, to John Sanford. James Eaton died
in May 1813.
Children, by first wife:
i. Ruth^, born 14 April, 1794; married 6 February, 1814 to
William Bentley, and had five daughters and one son.
She died 25 April, 1847. Her husband died 22 Decem-
ber, 1864, aged 74. This family is buried at Billtown,
Cornwallis.
ii. Mary Ann, born 3 May, 1796; married 13 March, 1817
to Benjamin Steadman and had at least eight children.
See “The Nova Scotia Eatons,” page 32. She died
3 October, 1869.
Children, by second wife:
iii. Nancy, born 3 May, 1801; married ii January, 1821 to
Henry Hall of Granville, Annapolis County, and had
eight children. She died 7 September, 1879.
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iv. Harriet, born 31 March, 1803; married 15 June, 1829 to
Aaron Hardy of Granville, and had at least two chil-
dren.
29. V. Edward, born 6 November, 1804.
vi. Fanny, born ; married to James Huntley of Canning,
Cornwallis, and had at least five children.
vii. James, born ; died aged three or four years.
viii. Rebecca, born ; married to Capt. Guy Newcomb,
and had children.
ix. Caroline, born ; married to Benjamin Sanford, and
had three sons and two daughters, Julia and Lucy.
8. John® Eaton {David^, James'^^ Jonathan^ ^ Thomas'^,
John^)y son of David® and Deborah (V/hite) Eaton,
born 29 May, 1773; married (i) 29 May, 1794, Tabitha
Rand, daughter of John and Catherine Rand. She died
26 October, 1807, and he married (2) 28 January, 1808,
her sister, Abigail Rand. He died 5 May, 1843. Abigail
died 14 December, 1848, aged seventy. ‘‘Captain”
John Eaton was a deacon of the Congregational Church
to the time of his death. He and his second wife, and
probably his first wife, are buried in the churchyard of
the Congregational Church below Canning. There are
tombstones to mark the graves of John and Abigail.
Children, by first wife:
i. AbigaiF, born 21 January, 1796; married 3 November,
1814 to Edward Borden, and had six daughters.
30. ii. Ward, born 28 November, 1797.
31. iii. Abijah Athearn, born 7 December, 1798.
iv. Sophia, born 18 November, 1799; married 4 February,
1818 to William Ells, to whom she bore eleven children.
She died 2 February, 1866. “The Nova Scotia Eatons,’’
page 35.
32. V. Charles, born 6 May, 1802.
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vi. Catherine, born 4 June, 1803 ; married 17 December, 1828
to Robert Ells, brother of William Ells, above. They
had nine children. She was living in 1884.
vii. Jane, born 2 November, 1806; married 16 January, 1828
to John Russell Coffin, and had eight children. She
was living in 1885.
Children, by second wife:
viii. Alice, born 8 July, 1809; married 23 December, 1843 to
William Cox, son of Thomas and Elizabeth Cox, and
had six children. She died 15 February, 1883.
ix. Olive, born 2 May, 1811; married to James Cox, cousin
of her sister Alice’s husband. They had at least five
children.
X. Emma, born 26 February, 1813; married 21 January,
1835 to Garrard Beekman Cox, a cousin of William and
James above. She had at least six children. Garrard
Beekman Cox died 4 October, 1871, aged 68. Emma
was living in July, 1885.
xi. Mary, born 26 February, 1815; married 30 January, 1845
to George D. Connors. She had five children. She was
living in July, 1885.
33. xii. John White, born 4 January, 1817.
CHAPTER V
SEVENTH GENERATION
9. Jacob ^ Eaton {Stephen^, David^^ James'^^ Jonathan^ ^
Thomas^ y Johv})^ son of Stephen® and his wife Elizabeth
(Woodworth) Eaton, was born 31 March, 1776; married
19 November, 1801, Mary Troop, of Granville, Annap-
olis County, born 26 August, 1780. They lived in
Granville. He died 7 August, 1849. She died 9 October,
1862.
Children:
34. i. Thomas Woodworth®, born 19 April, 1803.
ii. Ann Eliza, born 22 April, 1805; married 4 October, 1827
to Lawrence Hall, and had children.
iii. Phebe, born i February, 1808; married 29 October, 1829
to John Parker, and had children.
35. iv. Stephen, born 27 May, 1810.
V. Elizabeth, born 14 January, 1813; married i Octobei,
1840 to Leonard® Eaton of Cornwallis (William^,
Elisha®).
vi. Eunice, born 14 January, 1815; married — October, 1843
to Harris Roblee, and had children.
vii. Mary, born 17 March, 1818; married — June, 1851 to
George Withers, and had six children.
viii. Jacob Valentine, born 22 July, 1820; died September,
1836.
36. ix. Oliver, born 24 August, 1823.
10. Amos^ Eaton {Stephen^, David^^ James^^ Jona-
than^ y Thomas^ y John^)y son of Stephen® and Elizabeth
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(Woodworth) Eaton, was born 28 July, 1785; married
II January, 1810, Sarah Harris, daughter of Lebbeus
and Margaret Lucilla (De Wolf) Harris, born 2 April,
1787; died 17 October, 1865. Sarah Harris was sister
of Alpheus Harris, who married Rebecca^ Eaton, sister
of Amos. Amos Eaton moved in early life from Corn-
wallis to Pugwash in Cumberland County, was a Colonel
in the militia, and died, highly respected, 12 February,
1862. Sarah (Harris) his wife, was a granddaughter of
Nathan DeWolf, a graduate of Yale College (M.A.,
1743), who married about 1849, before coming to Nova
Scotia, where he founded an important family, Lydia
Belden of Saybrook, Connecticut. See Eaton’s ‘^His-
tory of King’s County,” page 632.
Children:
37. i. Levi Woodworth^, born 23 August, 1811.
38. ii. Nathan Harris, born 13 March, 1814.
39. iii. Amos, born 6 October, 1815.
iv. Margaret Lucilla, born 20 September, 1817; married, as
his first wife, to Isaac Newton Bigelow, and had five
children.
40. V. Stephen, born 26 June, 1819.
vi. Caroline S., born 20 November, 1821; married to Gideon
Bigelow, and had seven children.
vii. Sarah Eliza, born 3 August, 1824; married ii April, 1849
to Isaac Newton Bigelow, as his second wife, and had
eight children, seven of whom are: James Edward;
Sarah, married to Marshall Wilder and died s.p.\
John Clifford; Caroline, married to W. S. Harkins and
had a son, Harry, and a daughter, Lilia (who, as also
their father, are deceased); Emma Eaton, married to
Blain, of Cincinnati, and had two children, one a
daughter, Elizabeth, who is living; Edwin Clay; Sey-
mour, who died unmarried. Of these Bigelow children.
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James Edward married in Lynn, Mass., but returned
to Nova Scotia and spent most of his life in business
at Truro. He had a large family, one of his daughters
being married to Walter Muir, M.D., practising medi-
cine in Halifax, N. S., another to Rev. William James
Cox, Rector since 1911 of St. Andrew’s Episcopal
Church, West Philadelphia. Of the family of Isaac
Newton and Sarah Eliza (Eaton) Bigelow, Mrs. Hark-
ins is the only one living. Her address is 63 North
Walnut Street, East Orange, New Jersey,
viii. James Edward, born 3 June, 1826; died aged 19.
ix. Rebecca, born 12 August, 1828; died aged 19.
41. X. Alpheus, born i September, 1831.
What may have induced Amos Eaton to leave Corn-
wallis for Pugwash we do not know. The name Pug-
wash must have been fastened to the river in Cumber-
land County which bears this name when the Micmac
Indians roamed the province and have been perpetu-
ated by the French when the scanty settlement on the
banks of the river began to develop into hamlets or
villages. The Pugwash River flows from somewhere in
the interior of Cumberland County into Northumber-
land Strait and at its mouth in the first half of the
nineteenth century shipbuilding was largely carried on.
The history of Cumberland County at large has never
been written; indeed, with the exception of King’s,
Annapolis and Pictou, not one of the fourteen counties
of Nova Scotia proper and the four of Cape Breton
Island has ever been adequately written, Lunenburg and
Yarmouth perhaps coming nearer a proper consecutive
writing than any others, and so varied is the historical
interest of Cumberland that it ought to be a joy for
some man gifted with proper local - historical sense
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before long to do this work. In saying that Cumber-
land’s history has never been written I do not, however,
forget a very valuable small book called ‘‘The Chig-
necto Isthmus and its First Settlers,” by Howard True-
man, published in Toronto in 1902, which does give
many important facts in the history of the English
settlement of the county and concerning its early set-
tlers, that make a fine basis for a complete history when
a competent historian shall arise.
At the time that Shirley was carrying out his deter-
mined plan to destroy French influence in America one
of the strongholds of French power in Nova Scotia was
Beaubassin, on the Isthmus of Chignecto in this county,
where the French had built a fort called Beausejour,
and from here Duchambon de Vergor, who commanded
the fort, in the dead of the winter of 1746-1747 sent
out five or six hundred troops on their snowy march
down into King’s County, murderously to destroy the
English force stationed at Grand Pre. From this
isthmus and so from Cumberland County at large, as
Parkman in his “Montcalm and Wolfe” so graphically
shows, the French in 1755 were finally expelled. Fort
Beausejour then becoming Fort Cumberland; and in
1760 into Cumberland County, as into most other
counties of the peninsula of Nova Scotia, swept a tide
of New England families of the finest New England
stock. Between 1772 and 1774 came also a large group
of Yorkshire families to Cumberland, and these were
followed in 1783 and 1784 by many “United Empire”
Loyalists from New England. In a late chapter of this
volume I shall speak at some length of a Loyalist Mac-
Pherson family, some of whose members came from
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Shelburne County, Nova Scotia, to Pugwash and were
intermarried with the Eatons in the eighth generation,
and it is probable that these MacPhersons were at-
tracted to Cumberland by the presence there of these
other Loyalists, who may have come directly from the
United States. But I suppose that possibilities of agri-
culture and perhaps shipbuilding rather than any facts
of previous migration into the county from New Eng-
land or by people of Loyalist stock impelled Amos
Eaton to leave his native county of King’s for this
most northerly county of the Nova Scotia peninsula.
At any rate he did migrate to Cumberland and there
became a prosperous and highly respected man, his
family in time intermarrying with other important
Cumberland families like the MacPhersons, Blacks,
and Cranes. The Black family, which has had great
prominence in Nova Scotia, particularly in Halifax, are
descendants of the noted Rev. William Black, one of
the Yorkshire settlers in Cumberland, who is com-
monly known in Nova Scotia history as the Father of
Methodism in the Lower Provinces. The name Cyrus,
which has been and still is conspicuously borne in the
Eaton family, undoubtedly came into the family from
its association with the Black family, in which it appears
prominently again and again.
II. Nathan’’ Eaton {Stephen^, DavidP^ James^, Jona-
thans^ Thomas'^, John^)^ son of Stephen and Elizabeth
(Woodworth) Eaton, was born 9 June, 1787, and mar-
ried 5 October, 1809, Phebe Loomer, born February,
1790. They lived in Cornwallis. He died ii January,
1868. His wife died 7 September, 1858, aged 69. They
are buried at Billtown.
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51
Children:
i. Maria®, born i October, 1810; married to William H.
Parker, and had eleven children. She died 5 November,
1881.
ii. Eliza, born 22 February, 1812; married to Asael Porter,
and had seven children. She died October, 1880.
iii. Sarah Ann, born 21 September, 1813; probably died un-
married.
42. iv. Jacob, born 6 October, 1815.
V. Rebecca, born 19 September, 1817; married to William
Thorpe, and had seven children.
43. vi. Levi, born 7 February, 1820.
vii. Phebe, born 27 June, 1822; married 20 February, 1856 to
David Andrew Wood, and had five children.
viii. Mary Lois, born 14 December, 1824; married to Henry
Porter, and had nine children.
ix. Olivia, born 29 April, 1827; married to James Curry, of
Windsor or Falmouth, Hants County, but had no chil-
dren.
X. Hannah, born 20 August, 1831; married (i) 22 March,
1854 to James Manson Rockwell; (2) to Patten Wood.
She is said to have had in all six children,
xi. Prudence, born 4 November, 1833; married 22 September,
1853 to Gideon Wickwire, and had four children. She
died 12 March, i860.
12. Stephen^ Eaton {Stephen^, David^^ James"^^
Jonathan^^ Thomas‘S ^ Johv}), son of Stephen® and Eliza-
beth (Woodworth) Eaton, born 23 March, 1792; mar-
ried (i) 20 June, 1815, Mary Eliza Bill, daughter of
Asael and Mary Bill, born 25 November, 1794. He
moved early in his married life to Niagara County,
New York, and died at Porter, New York, where most
of his life had been spent, 29 November, 1869. His
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first wife died 7 May, 1842, and he married again 14
June, 1843, Hannah St. John.
Children, by first wife:
44. i. Douglas Woodworth*, born in Cornwallis, 23 August,
1816.
45. ii. Asael Bill, born in Cornwallis 12 May, 1818.
46. iii. Ingram Ebenezer, born in New York City, 30 January,
1821.
47. iv. Stephen Rand, born in Porter, N. Y., 27 August, 1823.
V. Jacob, born in Porter, N. Y., 27 August, 1826; died 3 June,
1842.
vi. Mary Eleanor, born in Porter, N. Y., 24 March, 1829;
married (i) to ^IcDougall; (2) to James Emmett.
She died June, 1882.
48. vii. Edward Manning, born in Porter, N. Y., 3 October, 1831.
49. viii. Adoniram Judson, born in Porter, 20 July, 1835.
Child, by second wife:
ix. Cordelia, born ii March, 1844; married to George Whit-
taker.
13. Dan^ Eaton {Elisha^, David^, James^y Jonathan^,
Thomas'^^ Joh'n}), son of Elisha® and Irene (Bliss) Eaton,
born 2 March, 1780; married (i) Martha Knowles of
Newport, Hants County, who died 10 January, 1806.
He married (2) in 1806, Margaret Bulmer, of Amherst,
Nova Scotia, born 23 December, 1787, daughter of
William and (Forrest) Bulmer of Amherst. Mr.
Eaton, who was a merchant, removed from Nova Scotia
to Maine in 1825, his children with the exception of his
youngest daughter, Sarah, having been born in Nova
Scotia. He died at Perry, Maine, 2 September, 1864;
his wife, Margaret, died in June, 1865. In 1818 he
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built a vessel at Scott’s Bay, Nova Scotia, and named
her The Margaret, At the same time and place, Caleb^
Eaton, son of Elijah®, built a vessel there and named her
after his wife, Jane.
Child, by first wife:
50. i. Henry Knowles^, born 26 November, 1805.
Children, by second wife:
ii. Martha, born 16 June, 1807; married 22 September, 1833
to Theodore Cutts, merchant, of Eastport, Maine, and
had two children: Frances Elvira Cutts, born 14 Feb-
ruary, 1835, married 9 December, 1857 to William T.
Black, M.D., of St. Stephen, N. B.; Josephine Cutts,
born 28 January, 1849; died ii September, 1850.
51. hi. George, born 28 June, 1809.
52. iv. William Wentworth, born 16 February, 1811.
V. Mary Ann, born 17 September, 1813; married i July,
1838 to Matthias Vickery, merchant, of Calais, Maine.
She died 12 March, 1879. She had three children. See
“The Nova Scotia Eatons,” page 40.
vi. Irene Deborah, born 2 April, 1819; married 20 August,
1837 to Nathaniel Brown, merchant, of Calais, Maine
(firm, “Brown & Vickery”). He died at Winter Hill,
Boston, in the winter of 1854-1855.
vii. Clarissa Margaret, born 14 December, 1822; married 21
January, 1843 at Perry, Maine, to Jonathan Stickney and
had five children. See “Nova Scotia Eatons,” page 40.
53. viii. Daniel Lewis, born 31 October, 1824.
ix. Sarah, born 26 September, 1830; married 8 June, 1854 to
Rev. Thomas D. Howard, a Unitarian clergyman, and
died, s.p. [To her, an accomplished and charming mem-
ber of the family, my father’s first cousin, I am indebted
for much of my knowledge of her immediate family.]
14. Enoch ^ Eaton {Elisha^, David^, James'^, Jona-
than^,, Thomas'^, John^), son of Elisha® and Irene (Bliss)
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Eaton, born 22 September, 1781; married 7 February,
18 1 1, Hannah Rockwell, daughter of Asael and Ruth
Rockwell. He died ii July, 1851. She died 5 January,
1850.
Children:
i. Lydia Ann®, born 18 January, 1812; married to John Wis-
well and had children.
ii. Eunice Maria, born 28 February, 1814; married to George
W. Cunnabell. They removed to New Zealand.
54. iii. Enoch, Jr., born 28 January, 1816.
55. iv. Henry Allen, born 31 December, 1817.
56. V. Watson, born 21 February, 1820.
57. vi. Benjamin, born 27 February, 1822.
58. vii. James Mason, born 20 April, 1824.
viii. Eliza Irene, born 14 February, 1826; married to John
Mailman of St. John, N. B., who after her death mar-
ried her youngest sister, Mary Paulina. They removed
to New Zealand.
ix. Mary Paulina, born 17 June, 1830; married as his second
wife, to John Mailman.
59. X. George Wiswell, born 2 October, 1834.
15. Elisha^ Eaton, Jr. {Elisha^, David}^ James^^
Jonathan^^ Thomas^ ^ Joh'n}), son of Elisha and Irene
(Bliss) Eaton, born 30 June, 1783; married 22 March,
1814, Susannah Steadman, daughter of Enoch Stead-
man. He died 3 October, 1846; his wife died 5 May,
1857, aged 73. They are buried in the Upper Canard
burying ground.
Child:
i. David Owen®, born , 1822; died unmarried, 14 Janu-
ary, 1861. He was a merchant at Canning, and is
remembered, as were his parents, as an agreeable mem-
ber of the Eaton family.
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i6. William^ Eaton {Elisha^^ David}^ James'^, Jona-
thans^ Thomas‘S, John^), son of Elisha® and Irene (Bliss)
Eaton, born 20 April, 1786; married 25 April, 1809,
Nancy DeWolf, daughter of John DeWolf of Horton,
Nova Scotia. He died 20 November, 1852; she died
27 August, 1874, aged eighty-five. They are buried at
Upper Canard. Nancy DeWolf was a member of the
‘‘First” DeWolf family in King’s County. See my
“History of King’s County,” pages 629-632. This family
was founded in Nova Scotia by Simeon DeWolf, form-
erly of Lyme, Connecticut, and occupied a position of
much social prominence in Nova Scotia. Simeon was the
father of John DeWolf and grandfather of Nancy (born
in 1790). John DeWolf ’s brother, Benjamin, who mar-
ried Rachel Otis, daughter of Ephraim Otis, M.D., of
Scituate, Mass., had a daughter, Sarah Hersey Otis
DeWolf, married to Maj. Nathaniel Ray Thomas, Jr.,
first cousin of Lady Wentworth; and a daughter,
Rachel Otis, married to Hon. James Fraser, M.E.C.,
and mother of Sarah Rachel Fraser, married to Hon.
Charles Stephen Gore, G.C.B., K.H., third son of the
second Earl of Arran, and mother of Eliza Amelia,
married 20 September, 1848, to William Henry, nine-
teenth Earl of Erroll. See “History of King’s County,”
page 631.
Children:
60. i. Leonard®, born 15 May, 1810.
ii. Eliza Jane, born 19 March, 1812; married 24 June, 1846
to William Starratt of Liverpool, Nova Scotia, and had
one child, Harriet, born 12 February, 1849; married
to Martin Joseph Griffin, Barrister, editor of the Toronto
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Mail and assistant librarian of the Parliamentary
Library at Ottawa.
iii. Susannah, born 6 December, 1814; married 4 June, 1834
to Levi Woodworth, and died 5 May, 1859. She had
six children. See “Nova Scotia Eatons,” page 42.
iv. Anna, born ii October, 1819; married 15 May, 1845 to
Everard Doe of Maine, and had two children. She
died 2 September, 1862.
61. V. Clement Belcher, born 26 April, 1824.
62. vi. George William, born 8 May, 1826.
63. vii. Joseph Henry, born 20 July, 1828.
17. George^ Eaton {Elisha^, David^, James^, Jona-
than^, Thomas‘S, John^), son of Elisha® and Irene (Bliss)
Eaton, born 6 April 1790; married in the autumn of
1813, in St. Paul’s parish, Halifax, Anne Catherine
Manning, daughter of Walter Carroll and Susan
(Church) Manning, and niece of John Manning, M.P.P.,
whose wife was Deborah® Eaton. George Eaton was a
publisher and bookseller in Halifax, successor to Alex-
ander Morrison. His portrait was painted in his young
manhood (in 1808 or 1809) by Robert Field, and is
now owned by Ellis LeRoy Eaton of northern Maine,
to whom I gave it on his twenty-first birthday. It repre-
sents him a handsome young fellow and the Acadian
Recorder obituary notice of him describes him as an
inhabitant of Halifax of integrity and usefulness. He
died after three days illness, 8 October, 1822, and was
no doubt buried in St. Paul’s Cemetery, Halifax, on
Pleasant Street, nearly opposite Government House.
See Murdoch’s ‘‘History of Nova Scotia,” vol. 3, p. 314.
After his death his wife removed with her children to
New Brunswick, and her sons later settled in northern
Maine. Mrs. Eaton died at Grand Falls, N. B., and
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57
was buried there in March, 1855. A complete gene-
alogy of this family in manuscript prepared by me will
be found in the vaults of the New England Historic
Genealogical Library, along with the genealogy of the
Eaton family at large.
Children:
i. Frances Theresa^, born 20 November, 1814, baptized in St.
Paul’s Parish, Halifax, 19 February, 1815; died young
and is presumably buried in St. Paul’s Cemetery, Halifax.
ii. George, baptized in St. Matthew’s Parish, Halifax, 23
May, 1816; probably died unmarried.
iii. Edward William, baptized in St. Matthew’s Parish 5
April, 1818; married in September, 1858, Elizabeth
Betts of Newcastle, N. B., and left descendants at
Fort Kent, Maine. His daughter, Anne Evelyn, Mrs.
Watters, lives in St. John, N. B., and has given me
much valuable information about her family.
iv. Susan Anne, born ii March, 1820, baptized in St. Paul’s
Parish, Halifax, 2 July, 1820; had a private school in
St. John, but was married to Alexander Fraser, book-
seller in that city. It is said that she had one son, but of
him I know nothing.
V. Alexander, of whose birth or baptism we have no record.
His death occurred at Van Buren, Maine, 13 March,
1909; he was unmarried. He was a communicant of
the Episcopal Church and was buried in the Anglican
churchyard at St. Leonard, New Brunswick. He
owned his father’s portrait and his mother’s prayer-
book.
18. David ^ Eaton {Elisha^, David^, James"^^ Jona-
than‘S^ Thomas’S, John^), son of Elisha® and Irene (Bliss)
Eaton, born 25 September, 1792; married 2 June, 1814,
Susannah Strong, daughter of Peter and Rachel (De
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Wolf) Strong. He died 23 November, 1847. His wife
died 6 May, 1875, aged seventy-eight. His son, Charles
Frederick, wrote me: ‘‘David Eaton was a man who
had the esteem and confidence of the people of his time.
He took an active part in military matters and held
the commission of captain in the militia. When but a
young man he was placed in charge of the building of
an aboiteau across the Canard River, after several
unsuccessful attempts had been made by others, and
under his management was brought to a successful
issue one of the greatest enterprises ever undertaken in
this county, and which has added immensely to the
wealth of the inhabitants. Through this undertaking
several thousand acres of the most valuable land were
reclaimed from the sea.” David Eaton’s family was
one of the most important in the County of King’s.
Susannah (DeWolf) Strong was the eldest daughter of
Peter Strong (Stephen, Stephen) and Rachel (DeWolf)
Strong. Her father was John DeWolf, son of Simeon,
formerly of Lyme, Connecticut, and she was a first
cousin of Rachel Otis DeWolf, married to Hon. James
Fraser, Ad.E.C., mother of Sarah Rachel, wife of Hon.
Charles Stephen Gore, G.C.B. and K.H., third son of
the second Earl of Arran, and grandmother of Eliza
Amelia, Countess of Erroll (wife of William Henry,
nineteenth Earl of Erroll).
Children:
i. RacheF, born 18 March, 1815; married to Kinsman
Porter, and had children.
ii. Lydia Amelia, born 3 November, 1816; married to Arnold
S. Burbidge, and died 27 June, 1856. Their children
were: Henry Burbidge, of Halifax, N. S.; Wheelock
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59
Burbidge, Deputy Minister of Justice for the Dominion
of Canada; and Lydia Burbidge.
iii. James Mason, born 14 September, 1818; died 14 August,
1819.
iv. Margaret Manning, born 16 May, 1820; married 8 May,
1844 to Guy^ Eaton (Guy^, David®, David®), and had
one child, Charles Henry® Eaton.
V. Sophia Adelaide, born 10 February, 1823; married to
Judson D. Harris, son of Rev. David Harris, and had
fifteen children; the eldest, Charles Harris, M.D., died
young.
64. vi. David Rupert, born 4 December, 1827.
65. vii. Charles Frederick, born 24 April, 1830.
viii. Susannah Maria, born 8 April, 1832; married April, 1859,
as his first wife, to Judson® Eaton (Henry Knowles®,
Dan^, Elisha®, David®), and died, s.p.^ 27 May, 1859.
ix. May Alice Dickey, born 3 May, 1834; married to .
X. Emeline Augusta, born 7 June, 1836; married 5 November,
1861 to Prof. Theodore Harding Rand, D.C.L., teacher
and litterateur, son of Thomas Rand (his grandmother
Rand being a daughter of Stephen® Eaton, David®).
Dr. Theodore Harding Rand’s mother was Eliza Irene
Barnaby, daughter of Worden Barnaby and his wife
Lydia (Eaton^), her mother was a daughter of Elisha®
Eaton (and sister of my grandmother, Eunice Deborah
Eaton). Dr. Rand was for some years chief superin-
tendent of Education for Nova Scotia and under his
efficient direction the present free school system of the
Province was inaugurated. He was next called to the
same responsible position and duty in the Province of
New Brunswick, where he remained until 1883. He
then became Professor of Education at Acadia Uni-
versity, afterward being made President of McMaster
University.
19. James ^ Eaton {Elisha^ ^ David^, James^, Jona-
ihan^y Thomas‘S, Johrd), son of Elisha® and Irene (Bliss)
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Eaton, born i6 May, 1802; married 31 January, 1822,
Hannah Strong, sister of Susannah Strong, wife of
James’ brother David^ Eaton. Thus his children were,
like his brother David’s children, descended from the
DeWolfs of Horton. James Eaton was a strikingly
handsome and much respected man; his son. Dr. Bren-
ton Halliburton Eaton, had a fine oil portrait of him.
He died 5 February, 1884. His wife died 8 September,
1882.
Children:
i. Armanilla^, born 18 January, 1823; married to Henry
Allen^ Eaton (Enoch^, Elisha®), and died 30 October,
1867, leaving seven children.
ii. Mary Jane, born 3 October, 1825; married 15 November,
1842 to Christopher Starr, son of Charles and Paulina
(Cox) Starr. She had four sons and a daughter. Their
home was in Norris County, Illinois.
iii. James Edwin, born 27 July, 1828; died 16 December,
1843.
iv. Irene, born 25 May, 1831; married 19 November, 1851,
as his first wife, to Enoch Griffin, and died 27 January,
1871, leaving six children, the eldest of whom was
Clarence Griffin, a lawyer. Enoch Griffin married (2)
Lydia Ellen Rand, sister of Prof. Theodore Harding
Rand, D.C.L.
66, V. Levi, born 22 October, 1832.
vi. Amelia, born 12 January, 1835; married i January,
1857 to Albert Porter, son of Pingree Porter, and lived
in Auckland, New Zealand. They had four sons.
67. vii. Brenton Halliburton, born 8 August, 1837.
viii. Martha Ellen, born 13 February, 1840; married 8 Sep-
tember, 1867 to William Farnham, son of William
Farnham, of Digby, N. S. They lived in Cornwallis.
They had four children.
ix. Caroline Augusta, born 22 July, 1842; married to Charles
THE EATON FAMILY OF NOVA SCOTIA
6i
William Porter, brother of Albert. They had one
daughter. Residence, South Abington. Caroline Au-
gusta died 26 April, 1884.
X. Anna Maria, born i May, 1845; was unmarried in 1885.
20. Gideon^ Eaton {Timothy^ ^ David^, James'^y Jona-
than^, Thomas-, John^), son of Timothy® and Huldah
(Woodworth) Eaton, born 21 June, 1791; married 20
November, 1816, Alice Rockwell, daughter of Joseph
and Lydia Rockwell. He lived in Halifax, and died
there 8 November, 1866. His wife died 12 June, 1850.
Child:
i. Prudence Caroline®, born in 1817; married in 1841 to
William Newcomb, and had four children: J. Gideon
Newcomb; William A. Newcomb; Emma M. Newcomb;
Brenton M. Newcomb. Prudence Caroline died 22 Jan-
uary, 1856.
21. Timothy^ Eaton {Timothy^, David^, James^,
Jonathan^, Thomas‘S, John^), son of Timothy and Huldah
(Woodworth) Eaton, born 23 July, 1800; married 28
August, 1821, Sarah Ann Westcott, daughter of Robert
Westcott. The dates of their deaths I do not know.
Children:
68. i. Gideon®, born 16 September, 1822.
ii. Sarah Ann, born ; married to John Palmeter and had
at least two children. She lived at Cochituate, Mass.
69. hi. William Henry, born 28 April, 1826.
iv. Nancy, born ; died young.
V. Edwin, born , 1828; died aged fourteen.
70. vi. Otho, born 9 November, 1830.
71. vii. Robert Albert, born 30 April, 1836.
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22. Ebenezer^ Eaton {Elijah^ , David} ^ James^^
Jonathav}, Thomas^ ^ Johrd)^ son of Elijah® and Eliza-
beth (Rand) Eaton, born 9 April, 1786; married 22
February, 1809, Eunice Palmeter, daughter of Charles
Palmeter. He died 5 October, 1857. His wife died
about 1876. Their residence was Medford, Cornwallis.
Children:
i. William®, born 21 July, 1810; died aged fifteen.
ii. Marsden, born 10 October, 1814; killed by Indians, un-
married, in California.
iii. James, born 9 March, 1816; married (i) — March, 1847,
Susan Cox, daughter of Thomas Cox, died 17 June,
' 1851, aged forty; (2) 26 February, 1857, Ruth Cox,
sister of Susan. He had children by his first wife:
Eunice®, born 26 April, 1848; married — July, 1876 to
Joseph Cox, son of George Cox, and had children;
William, born , 1851; died 21 January, 1878.
iv. Elijah, born 10 November, 1819; married i January,
1848, Nancy J. Hardy, of Maine, and died at Med-
ford, 12 June, i860. Children: Everett Eugene®, born
5 May, 1850; Frank Elijah, born 20 January, 1858,
married 20 January, 1880, Christiana Melinda® Eaton,
his first cousin (Abraham®, Ebenezer^, David®), but in
1885 was s.p. Residence, Farmington, Maine. After
her husband’s death, Mrs. Nancy Eaton was married
to N. J. Gilman and lived at Farmington.
V. Abraham, born 9 August, 1821; married , 1852 (.9,
Abigail Spinnens of Michigan, and had children: Mary
Eunice, born 27 April, 1853; Lucretia Naomi, born 2
November, 1855; married to George Alonzo, and had
children; Victoria Corinthia, born 19 November, 1858;
Christiana Melinda, born 28 March, 1862; married 20
January, 1880, to Frank Elijah® Eaton (Elijah®, Eben-
ezer^, Elijah®), born 20 January, 1858.
vi. Isaac 1 , j* j • • r
.. T , V born , died in infancy.
vii. Jacob J
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63
23. Caleb ^ Eaton {Elijah^ ^ David}^ James^, Jona-
than^, Thomas'^, John^), son of Elijah® and Elizabeth
(Rand) Eaton, born 15 November, 1787; married (i)
22 February, 1810, Jane Rand, daughter of Jonathan
and Lydia Rand. He was a sea captain, removed to
New Brunswick about 1823-1824, and lived at St.
Andrews, and at Deer Isle. His wife, Jane, died at Deer
Isle, 21 October, 1824; and he married (2) 27 September,
1826, at St. Andrews, Eunice Benjamin, niece of his
first wife, born at Gasperau, King’s County, ii July,
1799. She died at Deer Isle 18 August, 1884. He died
at Deer Isle 4 January, 1863.
Children, by first wife:
i. Mary Alice®, born 10 January, 1811; died in infancy.
72. ii. Jonathan Rand, born 27 September, 1812.
iii. Naomi, born 8 August, 1814; married 30 September, 1830
to Thomas Whitney, and had children: Warren; Uriah;
Mary Jane, and perhaps others. She lived at Bangor,
Maine, but died in St. Louis, Mo., 19 August, 1853.
iv. Elijah, born 3 June, 1816; married at Baltimore, Md.,
went to California in 1849, but in 1885 his relatives
knew nothing of his whereabouts. He was believed to
have had at least three sons. It was thought he had
lived in San Francisco.
V. Ruth, born 18 November, 1817; died in 1822.
vi. Mary Jane, born 24 June, 1821; lived with Naomi in
St. Louis, and probably died unmarried. (The above
six were born in Cornwallis.)
vii. Caleb, born 3 April, 1824, at Deer Isle; married 22 Decem-
ber, 1847, Drusilla Herson of Deer Isle, and in 1885
had children: Sarah F.®, born ii October, 1849; married
(i) 2 March, 1866 to James Doughty; (2) 26 March,
1868 to Joseph Conley; she had one child by her first
husband, nine by her second; Caleb J., born 5 June,
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1851; married Dorcas Stewart, and had children:
Frederick; Clarendon; George; Maude; Lelia, the dates
of whose births I do not know. He probably lived at
Deer Isle.
Children, by second wife:
viii. Eunice, born 27 June, 1828; married 12 November, 1849
to Nehemiah Lord, but died s.p. Residence, Deer Isle,
ix. Elizabeth, born ii December, 1830; died 15 September,
1837.
73. X. Abel Benjamin, born 23 October, 1833.
xi. Joanna Caroline, born 24 November, 1835; married 30
September, 1852 to Patrick C. Gorman, but died s.p.
She died at Deer Isle, 24 May, 1867.
xii. Feynetty Charlotte, born at Deer Isle, 19 August, 1838;
married 6 September, 1865 to Jedediah Crocker of
Weston, West Cornwallis, and had six children. See
“Nova Scotia Eatons,” page 48.
xiii. Eliza Ann, born 10 December, 1840, at Deer Isle; died
there 19 September, 1842.
24. Elisha^ Eaton {Elijah^., David^^ James^, Jona-
than^., Thompis^^y John^), son of Elijah® and Elizabeth
(Rand) Eaton, born 1808; married 8 December,
1829, Mary Beckwith, born in 1810. He lived in
A,ylesford, King’s County, and died there 25 August,
1881. His wife died 31 January, 1882.
Children:
i. Eliza Jane®, born 21 August, 1830; married 14 May, 1856
to Asael Rockwell, born in July, 1815.
ii. Thomas Worden, born 17 March, 1832; died 24 April,
1839.
iii. James Edward, born 21 December, 1834; died 12 October,
1835-
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74. iv. James Edward (again), born 3 December, 1835.
V. May Lavinia, born 19 April, 1838.
75. vi. Mayhew Emerson, born 14 September, 1840.
76. vii. Joseph Henry, born 29 November, 1842.
77. viii. George William, born 18 March, 1845.
ix. Julia Etta, born 30 July, 1847; married 23 June, 1881 to
Inglis Neily, of Aylesford.
X. Rebecca, born 15 May, 1850; married 10 November,
1872 .
xi. Albert Ross, born 18 May, 1852; lived in Massachusetts.
25. Guy^ Eaton {David^^ David^^ James'^, Jonathan^,
Thomas'^, John^), son of David® and Eunice (Wells)
Eaton, born 15 October, 1788; married 15 April, 1812,
Lydia Rockwell, born 16 December, 1792. He lived
most of his life in Cornwallis, but died in Wisconsin,
15 April, 1852. Lydia died in Cornwallis 4 January,
1827.
Children:
78. i. AsaeF, born 7 February, 1813.
ii. James Newton, born 29 October, 1814; died unmarried
4 January, 1842.
hi. Mary Ann, born 12 October, 1816; married to Charles
Fisk, of Maine, and lived in 1885 at Murphy’s, Cal-
varas County, California.
iv. Eunice, born 7 January, 1818; married to James Briggs,
and lived in 1885 at 523 O Street, Sacramento, Cali-
fornia.
V. Benjamin, born ; died at two or three years old.
79. vi. Guy, born 6 August, 1821.
vii. Ruth, born 4 May, 1824; married to Henry Boynton, of
Maine. In 1885 they lived at Forest City, Mecan
County, Minnesota.
80. viii. John Wells, born 14 December, 1827.
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26. Judah ^ Eaton {Dcwid^, David^, James^, Jona-
thans^ Thomas‘S j John^), son of David® and Eunice (Wells)
Eaton, born 25 December, 1792; married 22 Aday, 1817,
Eunice Pineo, daughter of Erastus and Prudence Pineo,
born II October, 1798. He lived long in Cornwallis,
but finally removed to Wisconsin, and there, 23 Decem-
ber, 1849, died. His wife died in Cornwallis 22 May,
1842.
Children:
i. Amanda,® born ii July, 1818; married 28 December,
1842, to her cousin AsaeF Eaton, son of Guy.
ii. Ann Eliza, born 20 March, 1820; married in Cornwallis,
to William Henry Wells, born in Halifax.
81. hi. Wells, born 2 March, 1822.
iv. Judah, born 30 March, 1824; died in Cornwallis, 19 July,
1838.
V. Eunice, born 3 November, 1832; married to William
Pineo, of Cornwallis.
27. David ^ Eaton (David^, David^^ James^^ Jona-
thans^ Thomas‘S ^ John^), son of David® and Eunice (Wells)
Eaton, born 2 February, 1795; married 13 February,
1814, Jerusha Rockwell, daughter of Asael and Ruth
Rockwell. He died in Cornwallis 19 April, 1879. She
died 20 October, i860, aged sixty-five.
Children:
i. Emily®, born 22 June, 1813; married to Robert Thomson
of St. John, N. B.
82. ii. Gurdon, born 25 July, 1816.
hi. Lavinia, born 5 July, 1818; married to William Wickwire
of Cornwallis, born 10 April, 1811.
iv. Susan A., born 18 August, 1820; married to John Northup.
83. V. George Edward, born 14 October, 1822.
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vi. Jerusha Ann, born 29 November, 1824; married to David
Lowden.
vii. David Henry, born 5 April, 1827; died unmarried 21 July,
1854.
viii. Eunice, born 20 June, 1829; married to William Ross,
ix. Mary Alice; born ii September, 1831; died unmarried.
X. Lydia Elizabeth, born 10 October, 1833; married 18 May,
1852 to Newton Comstock.
xi. Rebecca, born 16 October, 1833; married as his second
wife, to David Lowden.
xii. Hannah Jane, born 26 November, 1839; married to John
Parsons. They lived in Boston.
28. Levi Wells^ Eaton (David^, David^^ James'^,
Jonathan^, Thomas^, Johrd), son of David® and Eunice
(Wells) Eaton, born 10 December, 1812; married (i)
21 June, 1837, Mary Eliza Northup, daughter of Joseph
and Mahala Northup; (2) 28 July, 1851, Sarah Ellis
Woodworth, daughter of Nathan Woodworth. Mr.
Eaton was one of the ablest business men in Nova
Scotia, a merchant and shipbuilder of importance, a
conveyancer, and magistrate. He died at Canning 26
March, 1884.
Children, by first wife:
84, i. Joseph Edwin^, born ii June, 1838.
ii. Charles Frederick, born 6 June, 1840.
iii. John Levi, born 7 September, 1846.
Children, by second wife:
iv. Mary Eliza, born 4 June, 1852; married 8 August, 1878
to William H. Baxter of Canning, and had at least one
son, Leslie Eaton Baxter.
V. Annie Maude, born 31 January, 1858.
85. vi. Nathan Woodworth, born 17 April, i860.
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29. Edward^ Eaton {James^^ David} ^ James^^ Jona-
thar}^ Thomas^ ^ Johv}), son of James® and Lucy (Farns-
worth) Eaton, born 6 November, 1804; married 29
December, 1840, Sarah Jane Manning, youngest daugh-
ter of John and Deborah (Eaton®) Manning, niece of
his father’s first wife, Nancy Manning. (He may have
had a first wife, Prudence Wickwire.) He was a mer-
chant at Bridgetown, Nova Scotia, and stood high in
the community. He was living in 1885.
Children:
i. James Harvey®, born 29 January, 1842; married 21 Decem-
ber, 1869, lantha Ann Ring, daughter of James Ring.
Children: James Edward, born 18 October, 1870;
Ralph, born 13 March, 1883. Residence in 1885, Free-
port, Digby County, N. S.
ii. William Pitt, born 29 June, 1844; unmarried, at Stockton,
California, in 1885.
iii. Julia Elizabeth, born 18 October, 1846; died 8 March,
1848.
iv. Edward Manning, born 6 August, 1849; unmarried in
1885.
V. George Norris, born 31 July, 1851; married in 1876,
Maude D’Entremont. Children: Frederick Miles, born
, 1877; Roy Manning, born 30 April, 1881; Bessie
Maude, born 14 February, 1883. In 1885 they lived
at Pubnico, Yarmouth County, N. S.
vi. Anna Maria, born 7 December, 1853; died 23 July, 1856.
vii. Theresa Ferguson, born 24 January, 1856; married 14
December, 1878 to William Brooks, and had two chil-
dren.
viii. Bessie Maude, born 23 January, 1858.
30. Ward^ Eaton (/oAn®, David^, James^^ Jonathan^ ^
Thomas‘S, Johrd), son of John® and Tabitha (Rand)
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69
Eaton, born in Cornwallis, 28 November, 1797; married
13 May, 1819, his first cousin, Eunice Deborah Eaton,
daughter of Elisha® and Irene (Bliss) Eaton. Ele died
I February, 1870; she died 13 May, 1874. Both are
buried in the Upper Canard cemetery.
Children:
i. Ann Isabella^, born 30 August, 1820; married 25 October,
1852 to Ebenezer Rand, son of John and Margaret
(McKenzie) Rand, born 29 January, 1820, for many
years Her Majesty’s Chief Collector of Customs for
King’s County; died 17 April, 1889. Mrs. Rand died
4 April, 1907. See my “History of King’s County,”
page 522. They had children: Laura Francesca, born
25 November, 1853; married 10 August, 1875, to Noble
Crandall; Florence, bornii July, 1855; died 18 October,
1856; Benjamin, born 17 July, 1856, whose distin-
guished record will be given a little later on in this
sketch; Fenwick Williams, born 7March, 1858; Frederic
Clarence, Barrister, twin with Fenwick Williams; died
27 June, 1918.
86. ii. Leander, born 25 December, 1821.
87. iii. William, born 30 September, 1823.
88. iv. John Rufus, born 3 July, 1826.
V. Martha, born 9 March, 1828; married 25 January, i860
to Maj. John Edward Starr, son of Samuel and Su-
sanna (Cox) Starr, born 14 January, 1831; died 28 July,
1901. Mrs. Starr died 9 March, 1899. Residence,
Starr’s Point, Cornwallis. Children: John Rufus, born
13 December, i860; Ella, born ii May, 1862; died 12
May, 1864; Alice Augusta, born 18 September, 1865,
died unmarried i July, 1916; George Herbert, born
14 February, 1873.
89. vi. James Stanley, born 4 February, 1836.
During their whole lives together Ward Eaton and
his wife Eunice Deborah may properly be said to have
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held the place of greatest distinction in the Eaton
family in King’s County. I have said in my ‘^Nova
Scotia Eatons”: ‘‘Ward Eaton was a man of dignified
presence, courteous manners, and a generous heart.
He was for many years a Justice of the Peace and
for a long period, until his death. Clerk of the Town.
He was an excellent business man, and was frequently
called upon to settle disputes. When acting thus as
Justice he invariably secured a settlement of the diffi-
culties before they came to court, and he was in this
way of great service to the community. In politics he
was a strong conservative, and he was a warm friend
of Nova Scotia’s most distinguished conservative politi-
cal leaders. He died before his vigor of mind or body
had perceptibly declined.” My grandmother was a
woman of the greatest nobility of character, a lady in
the truest meaning of the word. Her hospitality is a
fine tradition in the Eaton family, her goodness is still
richly blessing the world.
In the whole of Nova Scotia I am sure there was not
a home where the atmosphere generally was more beau-
tiful than that of my grandparents. The landscape as
we looked out over the dykes was homelike and peace-
ful, the shade trees and orchards were beautiful, and
the carefully cultivated gardens had a charm of color
and fragrance that no gardens in these days that I
know have. My grandfather cultivated beautiful shade
trees about his Canard Street home in Cornwallis,
fragrant locusts, sweeping elms, stately poplars, as well
as orchards of fruit trees — cherry, apple, plum, and
pear — with luxuriant bushes of gorgeous red and white
currants, but the flower garden, under the direction for
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the most part of my Aunt Martha while she remained
at home unmarried, was beautiful beyond words from
early June until the blight of November fell on all the
gardens and fields. My grandparents idolized their
grandchildren, and were never tired of giving them
pleasure, and out of dear, fascinating memories of my
visits to them when I was a child, came a poem I wrote
many years ago for the Boston Youth's Companion,
which has had such widespread publicity in the years
since I printed it in 1885 in my early history of the
family, that I cannot forbear reprinting it here.
AT GRANDMOTHER’S
Under the shade of the poplars still,
Lilacs and locusts in clumps between,
Roses over the window sill,
Is the dear old house with its door of green.
Never were seen such spotless floors.
Never such shining rows of tin,
While the rose-leaf odors that came thro’ the doors
Told of the peaceful life within.
Here is the room where the children slept.
Grandmother’s children, tired with play.
And the famous drawer where the cakes were kept,
Shrewsbury cookies and caraway.
The garden walks where children ran.
To smell the flowers and learn their names,
The children thought, since the world began.
Were never such garden walks for games.
There were tulips and asters in regular lines,
Sweet Williams and marigolds on their stalks.
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Bachelor’s buttons and sweet pea vines,
And box that bordered the narrow walks.
Pure white lilies stood cornerwise
From sunflowers yellow and poppies red,
And the summer pinks looked up in surprise
At the kingly hollyhocks overhead.
Morning-glories and larkspur stood
Close to the neighborly daffodil;
Cabbage roses and southernwood
Roamed thro’ the beds at their own sweet will.
Many a year has passed since then.
Grandmother’s house is empty and still.
Grandmother’s babies have grown to men.
And the roses grow wild o’er the window sill.
Never again shall the children meet
Under the poplars gray and tall.
Never again shall the careless feet
Dance thro’ the rose-leaf scented hall;
Grandmother’s welcome is heard no more
And the children are scattered far and wide.
And the world is a larger place than of yore.
But hallowed memories still abide.
And the children are better men today
For the cakes and rose leaves and garden walks.
And grandmother’s welcome so far away.
And the old Sweet Williams on their stalks.
At this point I give briefly the distinguished record
of my cousin, Benjamin Rand, M.A., Ph.D., LL.D.,
of Harvard University, grandson of Ward and Eunice
Deborah (Eaton) Eaton, son of their elder daughter.
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Ann Isabella (Eaton) Rand and her husband, Ebenezer
Rand. Benjamin Rand, LL.D., although he does not
bear the Eaton name, is so loyal to his Eaton ancestry,
and has all his life been so intimately a member of
the group of descendants of our grandfather. Ward
Eaton, that no Eaton genealogy could with any pro-
priety fail to give him conspicuous notice. A gradu-
ate of Harvard University like my brother Frank and
myself, and in the closest way sharing our family and
educational interests, he has always occupied a position
in relation to us that is more like that of a brother than
a cousin. Dr. Rand’s career has been a very notable
one. Graduating first at Acadia University, he took
his B.A. for the second time at Harvard and then
went abroad and studied at Heidelberg. Returning to
America he thereafter, to the present, except for a
slight interval, has been importantly connected with
Harvard University. In a recent review of philosophi-
cal instruction in Harvard an account of his great work
in the department of Philosophy appears as follows:
“To render more effective alike for the purpose of
instruction and research and an extended curriculum of
philosophical studies it was necessary to have in the
several domains of Philosophy comprehensive collec-
tions of philosophical literature. In the pursuit of this.
Dr. Benjamin Rand has sought to found in Harvard
University a philosophical library of such extent and
value that it would be serviceable not only for the
courses of instruction here given but also for consulta-
tion by investigators throughout the American Conti-
nent. This task was begun by him during the regime
of Justin Winsor as Librarian and has been continued
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to the present time. He prepared for publication be-
tween 1896 and 1905 an exhaustive ‘Bibliography of
Philosophy, Psychology, and Cognate Subjects’ of
which the existing collections of Harvard University
have been made largely the counterpart. The number
of volumes in these collections have already been in-
creased from nine thousand to forty thousand and cover
all the various fields of Philosophy. With the opening
of Emerson Hall also, a Departmental Library devoted
mainly to philosophical work of classical value was
founded, and in 1906 Dr. Rand was appointed Librarian
in charge of this Philosophical Library.”
In the field of authorship in philosophical lines Dr.
Rand has done stupendous work. In January 1900 he
received from the Oxford University Press the first
proofs of his “Bibliography of Philosophy,” a great
work on which he had spent ten years of unremitting
labor and which easily ranks among the greatest philo-
sophical bibliographies of the world. In 1907 appeared
his “Modern Classical Philosophers,” in 1909 his
“Classical Moralists,” in 1911 his “Selections Illus-
trating Economic History since 1763,” and in 1912
his “Classical Psychologists.” In 1913 he published
“Shaftesbury’s Second Characters,” in 1914 “Berkeley
and Percival,” and in 1927 “Locke and Clarke.” For
many years Dr. Rand has spent his summers in Eng-
land, during the War being admitted by the English
Government to special privileges of observation and
inquiry. In the course of his notable research work in
Philosophy he has formed close friendships with several
of the highest nobility, especially the Earl and Countess
of Shaftesbury and their family, whom it has long been
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75
his privilege to visit at St. Giles most intimately every
year. In every sense of the word Dr. Rand is a distin-
guished man. His address is Harvard University.
31. Abijah Athearn^ Eaton {John^, David^, James^y
Jonathan^y Thomas‘S, Johrd), son of John® and Tabitha
(Rand) Eaton, born 7 December, 1798; married i
November, 1821, Deborah Coffin, sister of John Russell
Coffin, husband of Abijah Athearn’s sister, Jane. He
lived at Centreville, Cornwallis, and died 31 August,
1771. His wife died 9 August, 1880.
Children:
i. Andrew^, born 17 October, 1822; married , Phebe Ann
Newcomb. He died 8 June, 1857. A child, Andretta,
born — December, 1857, died , 1859.
ii. Sarah Jane, born 2 July, 1824; died 14 July, 1832.
iii. Ward, born 23 January, 1829; married 15 December,
1858, Gertrude Aberly Masters. Children: Inez Ham-
mond, born 22 November, i860; Clara Gertrude, born
5 February, 1866.
iv. Abraham, born 29 April, 1835; married Charlotte
Henderson. Children: Annetta, born 29 February,
1864; Andrew Henderson, born i July, 1870. Abraham
died 5 February, 1875.
V. Rebecca Ann, born 3 August, 1838; married to William
Edwin Masters, of Centreville, Cornwallis. Children:
George Andrew; Inace Ralph; Grace D.; Eugene Camp-
bell; John Gustave.
32. Charles^ Eaton {Johnny D avidly J antes'^ , Jona-
than^y Thomas‘^y Johrd)y son of John® and Tabitha (Rand)
Eaton, born 6 May, 1802; married (1)6 January, 1825,
Sarah A. Wickwire. He was a master mariner and
merchant at Black Rock, King’s County, on the Bay
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of Fundy. He married (2) 25 March , Rebecca
DeWolf of Horton. He died at Black Rock 22 October,
1878; his first wife died 6 November, 1850, aged fifty.
Capt. Charles Eaton was a man of great prominence
in the community where he lived and his influence was
always for good. He is said to have been in religion a
Presbyterian, but this possibly means Congregational,
since his father, John Eaton, was until his death a
deacon in the Congregational Church below Canning.
Children, by first wife:
i. Samuel Nelson®, born 8 November, 1825; died 3 April,
1830.
ii. Prudence Eliza, born 16 April, 1827; died 16 January,
1830.
iii. Sarah Alice, born 3 May, 1829; married 21 March, 1859
to Gideon Power, and died 2 October, 1876.
iv. Prudence Olivia, born 19 August, 1831; married 3 March,
1857 to Joseph H. Rawding, merchant.
V. Charles Edward, born 28 June, 1833; married 20 July,
1854 in Boston, Sarah Elizabeth Robinson, of County
Antrim, Ireland. Children: Rufus, born 17 June, 1855;
died 14 September, 1857; Alice, born 8 February, 1858;
married 18 March, 1880 to Samuel B. Sweet, merchant
of Cornwallis. Residence, Canada Creek, Cornwallis.
vi. A son, born and died 22 March, 1835.
vii. William Allen, born 5 June, 1836; died 3 October, 1837.
viii. Marietta, born 28 November, 1838; married 17 October,
1859 to Asaph W. Newcomb, and left a family who
have had prominence in intellectual circles.
ix. Rebecca, born 17 July, 1841; married 2 May, 1876 to
John Farquharson, merchant, of Halifax.
33. John White ^ Eaton {John^, David^, James'^,
Jonathan^^ Thomas‘S, John^), son of John® and Abigail
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(Rand) Eaton, born 4 January, 1817, married 25 Janu-
ary, 1844, Lydia Payzant of Canning. They were both
living near Canning in 1885.
Children:
i. Frederick Edward^, born 16 February, 1845; married
November, 1868, Ruth Ann Beach, daughter of Isaac
Beach, of Medford, Cornwallis. Children: Mabel
Adelia, born 13 March, 1870; John Brenton, born 28
June, 1871; Herman Wilder, born 28 March, 1873;
Isaac Howard, born 12 November, 1874; Sophronia
C., born 13 June, 1876. Residence, Medford.
ii. Annie Sophia, born 14 November, 1848; married 31
December, 1867 to James C. Sanford, and had five
children. Residence in 1885, Le Marc, Iowa.
iii. William Payzant, born 7 August, 1854; married 4 June,
1877, Clara Burbidge of Canning, daughter of William
and Rebecca (Belcher) Burbidge. She was descended
from Prudence (Eaton®) Wells. Children: Louise, born
— March, 1880; Eveline, born , died young; Jessie
Payzant, born — July, 1883.
iv. Sarah Jane, born 22 June, 1856; married in June, 1879
to Robert Gow. They lived at Framingham, Mass.
V. Maria L., born ii December, 1858.
CHAPTER VI
EIGHTH GENERATION
34. Thomas Woodworth* Eaton {JacoV^ Stephen^,
David^^ James^^ Jonathan^ ^ Thomas^, Johrd)^ sonof Jacob ^
and Mary (Troop) Eaton of Granville, Annapolis
County, Nova Scotia, born 19 April, 1803; married
25 April, 1833, Mary Ann Withers, daughter of William
Withers of Granville. He died, highly respected, 13
August, 1878.
Children:
i. Mary Eliza®, born 19 April, 1834; married 14 November,
1877 to Thomas Harris of Cornwallis, son of Alpheus
and Rebecca (Eaton) Harris. Rebecca (Eaton) Harris
was a daughter of Stephen® Eaton (David®).
ii. Jacob Valentine, born 9 August, 1836; married i June,
1868, Henrietta E. Parker, daughter of Charles Parker.
He had children: Caroline Edith^®, born 25 November,
1869; Blanche Edna, born 5 November, 1871; Avard
Parker, born 27 November, 1873. He lived at Gran-
ville, Annapolis County.
hi. Annie Maria, born 20 August, 1838; married 17 March,
1858 to Henry Calnek, son of Maurice Calnek.
iv. Emma Jane, born 30 September, 1840; died unmarried
17 March, 1858.
V. William Thomas, born 10 September, 1843; married 15
June, 1871, Frances Tuttle of Boston, and had a son,
Harold Woodworth, born 23 February, 1881. He was
in business in Boston. See “Nova Scotia Eatons,”
page 98.
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79
vi. Francis Eugene, born i8 July, 1845; died of diphtheria at
Granville, 5 April, 1876. He was a young physician of
great promise, having studied at Dalhousie and Har-
vard University medical schools. He was graduated at
the Harvard Medical School in 1873. He practised at
Clementsport and at Granville Ferry, Nova Scotia.
His capacity for labor, mental and physical, his skill in
and devotion to his profession, his accuracy and origi-
nality of thought, his fluent speech and fine rhetorical
powers, gave him promise of an honorable and useful
career. See my “Nova Scotia Eatons,” page 57.
vii. Burton Chase, born 22 January, 1848; married 12 Decem-
ber, 1878, Henrietta Troop, daughter of Robert Troop
of Granville. He had children: Francis Eugene, born
II September, 1879; died 4 November, 1881; Ethel
Maud, born 18 April, 1881; Victor Arnold, born 8
July, 1883.
90.viii. Adoniram Judson, born 16 October, 1850. 1
35. Stephen^ Eaton {Jacob'^^ Stephen^ ^ David^,
Javies^, Jonathan^, Thomas^ ^ Johrd)^ son of Jacob ^ and
Mary (Troop) Eaton, born 27 May, 1810; married (i)
27 September, 1844, Sarah Ann Hall of Granville, born
27 June, 1823, died 24 December, 1863. He married
(2) 26 September, 1877, Elizabeth Ann (Roney) Fox
of Granville.
Children, by first wife:
i. Weston Hall®, born 7 July, 1845; married 30 September,
1873, Gabrielle Rice, of Bear River, Digby County,
and lived at Bear River. He had children: Clarence
Halh°, born ii May, 1880; Lennie Gertrude, born 6
September, 1883.
ii. Charlotte Elizabeth, born 13 December, 1846; died un-
married 20 July, 1877.
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iii. Anna Maria, born 6 April, 1848; died unmarried, 30
December, 1875.
iv. Jacob, born 25 July, 1849; married 22 February, 1879,
Mary Eliza Strong of Cornwallis. He lived at Sterling,
Pratt’s Junction, Mass., having removed from Nova
Scotia in 1883. He had children: Walter RusselP®, born
13 January, 1880; Lamont Royal, born 25 November,
1881; Egbert A., born 7 November, 1883.
v. Leonard, born 23 March, 1851; was unmarried in 1885,
living at Crescent City, Florida, where he had an
orange grove.
vi. Edward, born 21 January, 1853; died 30 March, 1853.
vii. Mary Ella, born 14 January, 1854.
viii. Edward Hall, born 24 October, 1855; died 22 June, 1869.
ix. Melbourne, born 15 July, 1857; died 2 December, 1878.
X. James Delap, born 24 October, 1859.
xi. Lamont, born 26 June, 1861; died i March, 1881.
xii. Sarah Alberta, born i September, 1863; died unmarried
20 September, 1880.
Child, by second wife:
xiii. Harry Burkett, born 9 September, 1879.
36. Oliver® Eaton {Jacob^, Stephen^ ^ David}, James^,
Jonathav}, Thomas’^, John^), son of Jacob ^ and Mary
(Troop) Eaton, born 24 August, 1823; married 6 Octo-
ber, 1847, Emeline Mary Day, born at Digby, Nova
Scotia, 5 June, 1823.
Children:
i. George Thomas®, born 10 July, 1848; married 20 July,
1873, Hester Williams, of Cork, Ireland, and died at
Cork, 30 January, 1879. They had children, but none
were living in 1885. He was a master mariner.
91. ii. Charles Rupert, born 24 June, 1852; married 15 October,
1879, Rosanna Melvenia Young, born at Granville,
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Annapolis County, 26 January, 1853. Children: Arthur
St. Clair, born 19 January, 1881; Cora Belle, born
I February, 1882; Charles Wentworth, born 9 Novem-
ber, 1883.
iii. Emma Day, born 14 July, 1857; married 27 December,
1877 to Orbin Sproul, of Granville, and had children:
George Alvin, born 27 October, 1878; Charles Ernest,
born 28 September, 1880; Harry Augustus, born 3 Jan-
uary, 1883.
37. Levi Woodworth^ Eaton {Arnos'^, Stephen^^
David^^ James'^, Jonathan^ ^ Thomas‘S ^ Johrd), son of
Amos^ (of Pugwash, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia)
and Sarah (Harris) Eaton, born 23 August, 1811;
married (i) Sarah Bigelow, daughter of John and Sarah
Bigelow of Pugwash. He removed from Nova Scotia
to Auckland, New Zealand, in i860, with his son Capt.
George Eaton, and was a merchant there. His wife died
in the summer of 1878, and he married (2) in the
autumn of 1883 (but whom I do not know). He was
living in 1885.
What impelled Levi Woodworth Eaton and his son.
Captain George, to emigrate to New Zealand is said
by the Eaton family of Pugwash of the present day to
have been the fact that Mr. Eaton was an active ship-
builder and found that the day for building sailing
ships in Nova Scotia had passed. He therefore sought
another field for such activities. So he embarked in the
last built of his many vessels, taking his son George
with him as captain, for the far-away New Zealand
port. His removal, with his family, in i860, to this
remote country is spoken of conspicuously by Cyrus
Black, Esq., of Amherst, Cumberland County, a man
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of great prominence who knew the Pugwash Eaton
family well, in his valuable little genealogical book on
the Black family, descendants of the noted Rev. William
Black, “father of Methodism” in Nova Scotia, pub-
lished at Amherst in 1885. Mr. Cyrus Black shows that
Mary Anna Crane, whose parents were Rev. Robert H.
Crane, a Methodist clergyman, and his wife Matilda
(Black), “was married to Capt. George Eaton of Pug-
wash, son of Levi Eaton, Esq.” Mr. Black relates that
a few years after this marriage “a company of persons
embarked at Pugwash for Auckland, New Zealand.
They consisted in part of Levi Eaton and his family,
George Eaton and his wife. Rev. William Hobbs, a
Baptist minister, and his wife, with others. Captain
Eaton,” he says, “a few years after his arrival at Auck-
land was lost at sea and his widow soon after came
back to her mother’s at Pugwash. They had a son
named Robert Crane, and a daughter who died young.
Mrs. Eaton was subsequently married to Augustus, son
of George Carter of Pugwash, where they reside. They
have one son, John W., and a daughter Nettie.” The
son of Capt. George Eaton remained with his grandfather
in Auckland and very likely has descendants there now.
Children, by first wife:
i. Sarah Jane®, born 12 November, 1835; married in New
Zealand , and in 1885 had eight children.
ii. Lydia Ann, born ; married in New Zealand to Capt.
John James, and in 1885 had nine children.
iii. George Woodworth, born ; married in Nova Scotia,
Mary Anna Crane, and had two children; a daughter
who died young, and a son, Robert Crane, who lived
with his grandfather Eaton in Auckland.
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iv. Albert, born ; married in New Zealand and had chil-
dren, but they or their descendants are not known to
any of the Eaton family in this part of the world.
38. Nathan Harris^ Eaton {Arnos'^ ^ Stephen^ ^
David^, James^^ Jonathan^ ^ Thomas‘S, Joh-rd), son of
Amos^ and Sarah (Flarris) Eaton, born 13 March, 1814;
married — November, 1836, Alice Bigelow, daughter of
John and Sarah Bigelow of Pugwash. He died at Pug-
wash, 4 October, 1855, and his widow was married (2)
to Hans Hunter of Linden, Cumberland County. (It is
worthy of note that five of the children of Amos Eaton
married Bigelows of the same family.)
Children:
i. John Wellington^, born 24 (or 25) November, 1837; mar-
ried 25 December, 1867, at Centreville, Cumberland
County, Nova Scotia, Sarah Elizabeth Walker, born
5 August, 1851. They lived at Centreville, and had
children: Phebe Alice, born 21 October, 1868; Helen
May, born 29 November, 1870; Harriet Coretta, born
15 October, 1872; Graham Allen, born 18 June, 1875;
Harley Evert, born 9 January, 1880; Herbert Harris,
born 28 September, 1882.
ii. Amos Blucher, born 28 February, 1840; married 15 Febru-
ary, 1867, Mary Amelia Davidson of River Philip,
Cumberland County, born 15 March, 1848. They lived
at River Philip. Children: Florence Amelia, born 23
June, 1868; Martha Alice, born 3 November, 1870;
Ada Marietta, born 21 March, 1872; Minnie Pomona,
born 15 September, 1873; Elizabeth Rebecca, born i
April, 1875; Levi Woodworth, born 25 April, 1877;
Annie Emma, born 12 June, 1881.
iii. Judson Harris, born 8 October, 1841; married 31 Decem-
ber, 1868, Lucy Maria Horton, of Pugwash, born 17
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November, 1844. They lived at Centreville, Cumber-
land County. Children: Eva, born 10 August, 1870;
George Rupert, born i September, 1872; James Logan,
born 5 June, 1874; Annie, born 27 May, 1877; Asa
Bigelow, born 19 November, 1879; Sylvanus Morton,
born 15 June, 1882; Minetta Lavenia, born 5 January,
1885.
iv. Rebecca E., born ii October, 1843; married 7 August,
1861 to John M. Hunter, of Linden, Cumberland
County, and had ten children. See “The Nova Scotia
Eatons,” page 61.
V. Seraphine, born 13 April, 1846; married 13 October, 1864
to John G. Ralston of Londonderry, Nova Scotia, and
had nine children. See “Nova Scotia Eatons,” page 61.
vi. Annie Pamelia, born 27 July, 1854; married in 1874 to
Eli Weeman, of North Attleboro, Mass.
(There were also children: James Edward; Delia Jane;
Annie Pamelia, all of whom died in infancy.)
39. Amos® Eaton {Amos\ Stephen^ ^ David} ^ James^y
Jonathar}^ Thomas‘S ^ John^), son of Amos^ and Sarah
(Harris) Eaton, born 6 October, 1815, at Oxford, Nova
Scotia; married 26 May, 1836, Elizabeth Urquhart
MacPherson, born at Shelburne, Nova Scotia, 17 April,
1817. For the MacPherson family of Shelburne, Loyal-
ists from New York, see this volume further on. The
Amos® Eatons lived first at Pugwash, but after the
birth of their first child removed to North Attleboro,
Mass. Mr. Eaton died 20 January, 1879.
Children:
i. David Harris^, born 6 May, 1837; married 26 November,
1862, at Wrentham, Mass., Emma Furnace Herring,
born at Wrentham, 17 April, 1841. He had children:
Annie Laura, born 19 January, 1854, at North Attle-
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boro, died 19 January, 1866; Ida May, born 29 July,
1867, at Mansfield, Mass.; Nettie Emma, born 24
February, 1871, in New York City; Eveline Harris,
born 5 June, 1864, at Wrentham, Mass.; Edward Evan,
born 20 August, 1875, at Wrentham, died 21 May,
1876; Sarah Elizabeth, born 25 March, 1878; Minnie
Louisa, born 8 January, 1881.
ii. Edward Higgins, born i October, 1838. He shipped in a
vessel belonging to an uncle, of which his cousin,
George, was captain. The vessel went to Ireland where
the captain sold it, and Edward Higgins was never
heard of by his family again.
iii. Evan McPherson, born 15 June, 1840; married Caroline
De Young, born in 1842. He died in New York City,
II December, 1871, s.p.
iv. Margaret Lucilla, born 24 November, 1842; married to
Rufus Evans.
V. Isaac Bigelow, born 17 January, 1845; married ,
Hannah Waugh, and lived at North Attleboro. Chil-
dren: Amos Alexander; Edgar; Mabel.
vi. Ruth Roach, born 4 October, 1847; married to Nelson
Pierce of Pugwash, and had children: Edward; Eliza E.;
Neva W.
vii. Mary Jane, born 30 October, 1849; married 17 May,
1866 to John Kirtland DeWolf of Pugwash, son of
Robert. He died at Pugwash 24 December, 1880. They
had eight children between 1867 and 1880. See “The
Nova Scotia Eatons,” page 62.
viii. Levi Woodworth, born 6 October, 1851; married Ella
Davis, and lived at Newark, New Jersey. Children:
Beulah; James; Annie; Ella; a son.
ix. Sarah Elizabeth, born — May, 1853; married 23 Febru-
ary, 1877 to John Henry Pilling, born at Millbury,
Mass., 29 August, 1855, but lived some time after his
marriage at Pawtucket, R. I. They had children: Amos
Henry, born 31 August, 1879; Amelia Etta, born 6 July,
1884.
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X. Rachel Adelia, born 28 April, 1855; married 24 March,
1881, Frederick Ashley Dunnell, born 25 January, i860.
xi. Annie, born 21 March, 1857; died — October, 1857.
xii. William Hobbs, born 17 November, 1858; married 22
March, 1882, in Massachusetts, Minnie Frances Sea-
grave, born 29 November, 1862, at Uxbridge, Mass.
In 1885 they had no children.
40. Stephen^ Eaton {Arnos'^, Stephen^, David^y
James^y Jonathan^ y Thomas'^y Joh7i^)y son of Amos^ and
Sarah (Harris) Eaton, born in Cornwallis, 26 June,
1819; married at Pugwash, Cumberland County, 5 Jan-
uary, 1842, Mary Desiah Parker, daughter of Rev.
Maynard Parker of Pugwash and his wife , born 16
February, 1825. He died at Pugwash, highly respected,
28 December, 1883.
Children:
i. Caroline Matilda®, born 22 October, 1842; married (i)
to David Hamilton® Eaton (DanieE, Daniel', Dr.
Daniel®, Timothy® (of Flaverhill), James^, Jonathan®,
Thomas^, John^, who died leaving her with one son,
John Edgar (in whom are united the two Nova Scotia
Eaton families, that from David® and that from his
nephew Dr. Daniel®). She was married (2) to I. S.
Johnson, merchant of Truro, Nova Scotia.
ii. Robert F., born 10 August, 1844; died 7 August, 1846.
hi. Howe, born 18 June, 1846; died 8 March, 1847.
92. iv. Joseph Howe, born 26 March, 1849.
V. Emma Sarah, born 14 June, 1851; married to Sumner
Keyes of Lancaster, Mass., and had children.
93. vi. John Russell, born 18 August, 1853.
vii. Harriet S., born 7 July, 1855; died 8 November, 1856.
94. viii. Cyrus Black, born 18 December, 1857; married 25 Decem-
ber, 1876, Margaret Whidden, of Antigonish, Nova
Scotia. In 1885 he had children; William W., born at
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Pugwash, 20 December, 1878; Amelia, born at Cam-
bridge, Mass., 12 October, 1880.
95. ix. Frederick Lane, born 9 April, 1864.
96. X. Charles Aubrey, born 29 March, 1868.
41. Alpheus^ Eaton {Amos\ Stephen^, David} ^
James^y Jonathan^ ^ Thomas^ ^ JohT})^ son of Amos^ and
Sarah (Harris) Eaton, born i September, 1831; married
in New Zealand and had children. He went to Cali-
fornia in 1859, then to New Zealand, shortly after
his brother, Levi Woodworth, removed there. He
became a merchant in Auckland, New Zealand.
42. Jacob ^ Eaton {Nathan’^, Stephen^ ^ David^,
James^j Jonathan}^ Thomas^^ Johv}), son of Nathan^ and
Phebe (Loomer) Eaton, born 5 (or 6) October, 1815;
married (i) 14 December, 1843, Rachel Rand, daughter
of Michael Rand, of Canaan, King’s County, born in
1816. She died 13 April, 1868, and he married (2) 8
March, 1870, Susan Dunham of Lakeville, Cornwallis.
Children:
i. Eunice Ann^, born — January, 1845; married to William
Stickney and lived in Boston.
ii. Harriet Maria, born 17 April, 1848; married to Brison
McDonald and had children. Residence, Somerville,
Mass.
hi. Amos Richmond, born 24 September, 1850; married in
Boston 4 March, 1874, Harriet Jane Wills, born 28
January, 1854. He lived at Auburndale, Mass. Chil-
dren; Frederic Richmond, born 9 November, 1874;
Ethel Annie, born 9 March, 1878; Grace Adelaide, born
18 April, 1880; Perry Douglas, born ii December,
1881; Sidney Jacob, born 24 September, 1864.
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iv. Mary Eveline, born 25 April, 1853; married to Henry
Reid and had children.
V. Phebe Loomer, born 16 January, 1856; married in Boston
to Thomas Thompson, but removed to Georgia.
vi. Emma Jane, born 12 December, 1858; married in Boston
to John Bruce and had children.
43. Levi^ Eaton {Nathan\ Stephen^, David^^ James^y
Jonathan^, Thomas'^ ^ John^)^ son of Nathan^ and Phebe
(Loomer) Eaton, born 7 February, 1820; married —
May, 1845, Elizabeth Huntington, daughter of Eliza-
beth (Strong) Huntington, and granddaughter of
Sarah (Eaton®) Strong, born 9 September, 1819. He
died at Billtown, King’s County, 29 August, 1872, and
is buried there. His widow was married again, in 1882,
to William Rockwell.
Children:
i. Stephen®, born 6 March, 1847; married in the winter of
1871, Eunice Ann Rand, daughter of Jeremiah Rand
of West Cornwallis. Residence, Cold Brook, King’s
County. They had children: Ernest; William; Nellie;
Worthy; Frank.
ii. Charlotte, born 12 April, 1849.
iii. Prudence, born 9 September, 1851.
iv. James, born 1853; was adopted in infancy by an
uncle, James Curry, and is said to have been married
a little before 1885, and to have lived then at Quaco,
Maine.
V. Manson Henry, born 19 April, 1855; married 18 Decem-
ber, 1880, Eliza Jane Coldwell, daughter of David and
Emily (Lovelace) Coldwell, of Gaspereau. Child: Le-
ander Leslie, born 9 June, 1884.
vi. Ida, born 16 July, 1857.
vii. Alfaretta, born 26 February, i860; married 21 November,
1877 to Lewis Forsythe, of Greenwich, Horton, King’s
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89
County, son of James and Hannah (Gould) Forsythe.
For her children, see “The Nova Scotia Eatons,” page
60.
viii. Annie, born 15 June, 1862.
ix. Levi, Jr., born 16 April, 1864; married 25 November,
1884, Henrietta Calkin, daughter of Frederic and
Joanna (Rhome) Calkin. They lived on the Wellington
Dyke Road, Cornwallis.
44. Douglas Woodworth^ Eaton {Stephen'^, Ste~
phen^, David^^ James^y Jonathan^ y Thomas^ y Joh'n})y son
of Stephen^ and Mary Eliza (Bill) Eaton, born 23 Au-
gust, 1816; married (1)6 April, 1842, Rhoda Hopkins,
who died at Wilson, New York, 9 July, 1849; (2) 29
May, 1850, Wealthy Moss, a Canadian, born 8 October,
1821, died in Detroit, Michigan, 27 January, 1885. He
died at Porter, New York, 27 August, 1871.
Children, by first wife:
i. Ingraham D.^, born i January, 1843, at Wilson, New York,
and died in Petrolia, Canada, ii July, 1866.
ii. James E., born 5 July, 1849, at Wilson, New York; died
7 January, 1856.
Children, by second wife:
iii. George Moss, born 3 May, 1851, at Porter, New York, in
1885 lived at 85 Columbia Street, West, Detroit,
Michigan.
iv. Elmer William, born 8 October, 1852, at Ransomville,
New York; married 22 September, 1882, at Fredonia,
New York, Caroline F. Lutherof Fredonia, born 2 April,
1866. In 1885 they lived at Elgin, Illinois. Child:
Charles D., born 19 October, 1883, in Detroit.
V. Charles H., born i January, 1862, at Porter, New York.
In 1885 lived at 85 Columbia Street, West, Detroit.
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vi. Mary Lilian, born 23 March, 1864, at Porter, New York;
died 20 June, 1867.
45. Asael Bill^ Eaton {Stephen’^, Stephen^, David^,
James^, Jonathan^ ^ Thomas‘S, John}), son of Stephen^ and
Mary Eliza (Bill) Eaton, born 12 May, 1818; married
(1)2 November, 1843, Maria B. Palmer, born in Bridge-
water, Oneida County, New York, 23 September, 1823,
died 5 June, 1859. He married (2) 14 March, 1861,
Lovina Hopkins, born 24 March, 1831, in Burlington,
Otsego County, New Y^ork. Residence in 1885, Chesh-
ire, Allegan County, Michigan.
Children, by first wife:
97. i. Oreletus Palmer®, born 27 January, 1845, Wilson, New
York.
ii. Mary Eliza, born 15 February, 1846, at Wilson, New
York; married 30 June, 1867, Fernando Cortez Petty,
born in Jefferson County, New York, 31 May, 1837.
He died 20 September, 1875, leaving two sons.
iii. Washington Irving, born 3 September, 1847, at Wilson,
New York; married 14 November, 1869, Frances Imo-
gene Bagley, born at Somerset, Niagara County, New
York, 5 April, 1850. They lived at Cheshire, Allegan
County, Michigan. He died 2 January, 1876, and his
widow was married again. They had children: Theresa
Ann, born 31 August, 1870; Bertha Marian, born 9
May, 1872.
46. Ingraham Ebenezer^ Eaton {Stephen'^, Ste-
phen}, David^, James'^, Jonathan^, Thomas'^, John}), son
of Stephen^ and Mary Eliza (Bill) Eaton, born 30 Jan-
uary, 1821; married (i) 15 April, 1847, Susan H. Hop-
kins, born 29 December, 1823, died 15 March, 1873;
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91
(2) 4 July, 1875, Irena L. (Stansell) Barney, widow of
Lucas Barney. He lived at Bloomingdale, Michigan.
Children, by first wife:
i. Frances A.®, born 13 September, 1848, at Drummond-
ville, Ontario; married 23 August, 1868 to J. D.
O’Brien, and had three daughters. She died in Bloom-
ingdale, Michigan, 7 February, 1876.
ii. Alice J., born 29 October, 1850; married 23 February,
1869 to H. Starkweather, and had two children, Frank
and May.
hi. Ida M., born 8 August, 1853; married 29 May, 1873 to
P. Van Aalstyne, and had children, Guy and Gray.
iv. Emma Sarah, born 6 May, 1856; died at Wilson, New
York, 15 May, 1856.
V. Grace A., born 23 July, 1858; married to E. J. Post and
had a son, Maurice.
vi. Stephen Homer, born 8 April, 1862, was a teacher of
music, probably in Michigan. See “Nova Scotia
Eatons,” page 65.
47. Stephen Rand^ Eaton {Stephen'^, Stephen}^
David^^ James'^, Jonathan^, Thomas^, John^), son of Ste-
phen^ and Mary Eliza (Bill) Eaton, born 27 August,
1823, in New York City; married i January, 1852,
Hester Ann Black of Pictou, Nova Scotia, born 28
May, 1826. He lived in Buffalo, New York, and Marys-
ville, California, but died 13 April, 1884, at Ukiah,
California. His widow lived in 1881: at Buffalo, New
York.
Children:
i. Ida®, born 27 March, 1853; died ii June, 1854.
ii. Edward Alma, born ii February, 1855, at Marysville,
California; married 24 June, 1884, Elizabeth Ellen
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Bradley, of Lafayette, California, born 27 July, 1858.
They had no children in 1885.
iii. Mary Eleanor, born 30 June, 1856; married 19 November,
1884, to Simeon Loder Frost, born in Michigan 30
March, 1837.
iv. Frances Helen, born 27 September, 1858.
V. Charles Stephen, born 4 April, 1861; lived in Oakland,
California.
vi. Harry, born 5 April, 1863; in 1885 lived in San Francisco.
48. Edward Manning^ Eaton {Stephen'^, Stephen^^
David}^ James^, Jonathan^ y Thomas^ y John^)y son of
Stephen^ and Mary Eliza (Bill) Eaton, born 3 October,
1831; married 30 April, 1857, Harriet Hopkins, born
in Burlington, New York, 18 October, 1838. He lived
in Bloomingdale, Michigan.
Children:
i. Cora Lovina®, born 8 November, 1859, at Wilson, New
York; married 30 April, 1884, Bray ton C. Day, born
23 April, 1856, at Three Mile Bay, Jefferson County,
New York. Residence, Detroit, Michigan.
ii. George Edward, born 19 February, 1869, at Blooming-
dale, Michigan.
49* Adoniram Judson® Eaton (Stephen'^y Stephen^y
D avidly James^y Jonathan^ y Thomas^ y Johv}')y son of
Stephen^ and Mary Eliza (Bill) Eaton, born 20 July,
183s; married 23 October, i860, Henrietta Frank ?eet,
of Lewiston, New York, born 20 October, 1846. In
1865 he was United States Collector of Customs at
Youngstown, Niagara County, New York.
Children:
i. Wilbur C.®, born 19 January, 1863, at Porter, New York.
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93
ii. Herbert B., born 3 February, 1869, at Porter, New York.
iii. Benjamin, born 16 November, 1879.
50. Henry Knowles^ Eaton {Dan^^ Elisha^^ David'^^
James^^ Jonathan^, Thomas'^ ^ Joh7i^)^ son of Dan^ and
Martha (Knowles) Eaton, born at Newport, Hants
County, Nova Scotia, 26 November, 1805; married 10
March, 1830, Lucy Ann DeWolf of Horton, born 21
November, 1808. In my ‘‘Nova Scotia Eatons” I call
him one of the most honorable of David Eaton’s de-
scendants, a man of integrity and refinement, of the
most unaffected piety, and a simplicity and sweetness
of character that have won for him the increasing respect
of his generation. He was living in 1885; his wife died
II March, 1872.
Children:
i. A daughter^ born 2 February, 1831; died 2 March, 1831.
ii. Judson, born 13 December, 1832; married (i) — March,
1859, Susan Maria^ Eaton (David^, Elisha®, David®).
She died, s,p.^ 27 May, 1859, and he married (2) 27
August, 1861, Susan Spinney, of Nictaux, Annapolis
County, Nova Scotia. He had no children by either
wife.
iii. Otis, born 2 June, 1835; married 9 April, 1867, Adelaide
Marr, of Windsor, Nova Scotia, and had six children:
Alice Lavinia, born 24 April, 1868; Irene Lucy, born
II November, 1869; Minnie Blanche, born 24 January,
1873; Truman Henry, born 17 August, 1874; Harold
Tinson, born 17 April, 1876; Russell Daniel, born
5 May, 1881.
iv. Margaret Ann, born 6 November, 1837; died unmarried
25 January, 1864.
V. Joshua Tinson, born 7 February, 1840; married 12 Sep-
tember, 1876, Minnie B. DeWolf, daughter of Thomas
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DeWolf, of Halifax. He became a clergyman and held
pastorates at St. Stephen, New Brunswick; Paradise,
Nova Scotia, and Ohio, Yarmouth County, Nova
Scotia. His wife before her marriage was a missionary
in India. They both died after 1885, s.p.
vi. Daniel, born 24 August, 1842, was graduated B.A. at
Acadia University, and soon after, ii August, 1868,
died in Boston, unmarried.
vii. Martha Laleah, born 5 April, 1845; married 24 December,
1879 to W. S. Sweet, of Billtown, Cornwallis. She had
children. See “Nova Scotia Eatons,” page 66.
viii. Sarah Julia, born 15 October, 1847; married 9 May, 1877
to Samuel S. Strong, merchant and public official at
Kentville, Nova Scotia, and had children,
ix. Edward Henry, born 5 March, 1850; married 28 March,
1883, Clara Louisa Rogers, daughter of John Rogers,
of Nictaux, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia, and had
children.
X. Clara J. S. DeWolf, born i July, 1852; died unmarried
after 1885.
51. George^ Eaton {Dan\ Elisha^^ David^, James^y
Jonathan^ y Thomafy Johrd)y son of Dan^ and Margaret
(Bulmer) Eaton, born 28 June, 1809; married
Elvira Clarke, of Eastport, Maine. He died sometime
after 1885; his wife died at St. John, New Brunswick,
12 July, 1854. In his earlier married life Mr. Eaton
lived at St. George, New Brunswick, and there his chil-
dren were born, but he afterwards lived in St. John, as
a prominent ship broker. His house in St. John was in
Paradise Row.
Children:
i. Maria Chapman^, born 23 April, 1838; married — Novem-
ber, 1859 to Abram Seelye, a cotton buyer in New
Orleans. She died in New Orleans, 22 May, i860.
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95
ii. Harriet Elvira, born 27 February, 1840; died unmarried
after 1885.
iii. Mary Anne, born 17 November, 1843; married 22 Febru-
ary, 1867 to Robert Chapman Adams, and had four
children. See “Nova Scotia Eatons,” page 67.
52. William Wentworth^ Eaton {Dan\ Elisha^,
David}, James'^, Jonathan^, Thomas‘S, JohTd), son of Dan ^
and Margaret (Bulmer) Eaton, born 16 February, 1811 ;
married 14 April, 1834, Sarah Ann Peavey, of Eastport,
Maine. He became a minister of the Disciples ’’denom-
ination, but for some years was connected with the
Chicago Journal of Commerce. He lived for many years
and died (after 1885) in Chicago.
Children:
i. Brewer D. Moore®, born 5 March, 1835; married (i) —
March, 1865, Mary C. Gillian, of St. Louis; (2) —
April, 1867, Elizabeth Carroll, of St. Louis, a descend-
ant of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, Md. He had by
his second wife at least one child, Sidney Patterson,
born — November, 1867. See “Nova Scotia Eatons,”
page 106.
ii. Sophia, born 17 July, 1838; married 12 May, 1864, in
Cincinnati, to Allan C. Reid, of Eastport, Maine, and
lived in Chicago.
iii. Charles Peavey, born 20 June, 1842.
iv. Frederic Oberlin, born 27 July, 1847.
53. Daniel Lewis® Eaton {Dan\ Elisha^, David^,
James'^, Jonathan^, Thomas‘S, John^), son of Dan^ and
Margaret (Bulmer) Eaton, born 31 October, 1824;
married 27 November, 1856, Frances Webster of Cape
Elizabeth, Maine, daughter of Eben and Mary Jones
(Jordan) Webster, born 5 October, 1827. He died 16
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February, 1873, in Washington, D. C. After his death
his widow lived at 806 Twelfth Street, Washington,
D. C. Col. Daniel Lewis Eaton was graduated at Bow-
doin College, Maine, in 1851, read law with Shepley
and Dana at Portland, Maine, taught school in Louis-
ville, Kentucky, was connected with the press at Pitts-
burgh, Pennsylvania, came to Washington as newspaper
correspondent in 1861, was appointed paymaster in the
army, and so remained “until mustered out of service
by President Johnson.” He was actuary of the Freed-
man’s Savings and Trust Company at its principal
office, in Washington, until near the time of his death,
when he became cashier of the Second National Bank,
which position he held when he died. “In all these posi-
tions,” said the obituary of him in the Daily Chronicle
of Washington, “he proved himself a man without fear
and without reproach.” Another newspaper. The New
National Em, said: “Colonel Eaton is dead. The colored
people have sustained a great loss. He was true to them
in sympathy and labor. Connected with the Freed-
man’s Bank from its commencement, he did much to
give it tone and efficiency. He was wise in his selec-
tion of his coadjutors, and sagacious in his business
plans for the promotion of every interest affecting the
Freedman’s Savings Bank, which we regard as one of
the best educational institutions among us. While it is
true that the idea of such an institution was originated
by I.W. Alvord, Esq., and seconded by Senator Sumner,
yet it required some such devoted agent as Colonel
Eaton to make it a success. In departing from us, he
leaves in this institution a monument of which all who
are connected with him may be justly proud.”
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97
Children:
i. Frank®, born 30 September, 1859, at Pittsburgh, Pa.; died
I January, 1861.
ii. Paul, born 27 December, 1861, at Washington, D. C.
In 1885 he was a clerk in the War Department at
Washington.
iii. Isabel, born 22 November, 1863; in 1885 was studying at
Smith College, Northampton, Mass.
54. Enoch® Eaton, Jr. {EnocK^^ Elisha^, David^^
James^^ Jonathan^ ^ Thomas‘S ^ Johrd)^ son of Enoch ^ and
Hannah (Rockwell) Eaton, born 28 January, 1816,
married (i) — October (.^), 1853, Elizabeth Terry,
daughter of Elkanah Terry. She died 4 July, 1875,
aged sixty, and he married (2) 2 December, 1876, Irene
Terry, daughter of Ephraim Terry. Enoch Eaton died
24 May, 1885.
Children, by first wife:
i. Arthur Crawley®, born 19 April, 1854; died 2 September,
1875-
ii. Edgar Primrose, born 13 April, 1856; married 16 Novem-
ber, 1878, Florence Fraser, daughter of John Fraser,
and had at least one child, Mary Elizabeth, born 26
March, 1881.
55. Henry Allen® Eaton {Enochs Elisha^, David}^
James"^^ Jonathan^, Thomas’^ ^ Johv})^ son of Enoch ^ and
Hannah (Rockwell) Eaton, born 31 December, 1817,
married (i) 18 January, 1843, Armanilla® Eaton, daugh-
ter of James^ (Elisha®, David®), his first cousin, born
18 January, 1823, died 30 October, 1867. He married
(2) 15 June, 1869, Maria (Fitch) Eaton, widow of
Joseph Henry® Eaton, son of William^ (Elisha®, David®) ;
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died some time after 1885. The residence of this family
was at Lower Canard, Cornwallis.
Children, by first wife:
i. Charles Edwin^, born 14 March, 1846; died 27 March,
1848.
ii. Emma Irene, born 30 April, 1850.
iii. Flora Jane, born 16 July, 1852; married 9 March, 1875,
as his second wife, to Rev. William B. Boggs, D. D.,
missionary to India, and had children: Henry Herbert
Boggs, born and died in 1876; Grace Evelyn Boggs,
born 2 May, 1878; Theodore Boggs, born , 1881;
Albert Boggs, born — April, 1882.
iv. Grace Lilian, born 18 November, 1855; married ii Octo-
ber, 1881, to Edwin Mosher of Merrimac, Mass., and
had children, the eldest of whom was Mabel Grace,
born — August, 1883.
98. V. Freeman Allen, born 29 January, 1858.
99. vi. Albert Edward, born 21 July, i860.
vii. Frank Mailman, born 12 December, 1863.
viii. Bessie Maria, born 2 January, 1867.
56. Watson^ Eaton {Enoch'^y Elisha^, Davi(E, James^,
Jonathan^, Thomas‘S, John^), son of Enoch^ and FJannah
(Rockwell) Eaton, born 21 February, 1820, married
8 July, 1847, Emelina Shaftner, born in Williamston,
Annapolis County, Nova Scotia, 20 October, 1828. He
was in 1885 a commission merchant at Halifax, Nova
Scotia.
Children:
i. Hannah Rebecca®, born 13 June, 1848, at St. John, New
Brunswick; married 5 January, 1871 to George W.
Stuart, mining agent at Truro, Nova Scotia, and in 1885
had four children. See “Nova Scotia Eatons,” page 75.
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99
ii. John Shaftner, born 26 November, 1849, in Annapolis
County; died 10 August, 1859.
hi. Clara Maria, born 18 June, 1851, at Wolfville, Nova
Scotia; died 27 February, 1854.
iv. George Cunnabell, born 15 January, 1853, at Wolfville,
Nova Scotia; died 8 December, 1854.
V. William Lloyd Garrison, born 21 January, 1856, at Wolf-
ville; married 19 September, 1883, Ellen Neily, born
at Nictaux, Annapolis County. They had children, the
first a daughter, born in 1884.
vi. Charles Lewis, born 3 May, 1858, at St. John, New Bruns-
wick, studied at Acadia University in 1880; married
I February, 1883, Rosa Hubley of Halifax. In 1885
he was a commission merchant at Halifax. His eldest
child was Lewis Randolph, born — December, 1884.
vii. Estella, born 7 June, i860, at Berwick, Nova Scotia.
viii. Watson, Jr., born 15 January, 1865; died 9 January, 1875.
ix. Margaret Stewart, born 10 July, 1869, at Berwick, Nova
Scotia.
57. Benjamin^ Eaton {Enoch\ Elisha^, David^,
James^^ Jonathan^, Thomas'^ ^ Johrd)^ son of Enoch ^ and
Hannah (Rockwell) Eaton, born 27 February, 1822,
married 19 May, 1847, Sophia Ells, daughter of William
and Sophia (Eaton^) Ells. Sophia (Eaton) Ells was a
daughter of John® (David®) Eaton. Benjamin Eaton died
in Cornwallis, as did his wife, after 1885.
Children:
i. James Everett^, born 16 February, 1848; married 7 Sep-
tember, 1871, Sophia Rebecca Bentley, of Billtown,
Cornwallis, born 6 December, 1851, and had children:
Laurie Everton, born 14 October, 1874; Mabel Leta,
born 7 January, 1875; Arthur Harold, born 22 Janu-
ary, 1878; Violet Locke, born 7 September, 1881;
Edith Sophia, born 26 October, 1882.
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ii. William Edwin, born 24 November, 1849; married (i)
26 October, 1874, Mary J. Brecken, daughter of Perez
Brecken, of Canard, Cornwallis, who died 23 February,
1878, aged 32; (2) 24 June, 1880, Althea Amanda Kins-
man, daughter of Theodorus Kinsman, born 14 Octo-
ber, 1849. By his second wife he had at least one child,
Arthur Theodorus, born 13 June, 1882. Residence,
Cornwallis.
iii. Eliza Irene, born 4 March, 1851; married 13 September,
1876, Thomas Offen. Residence, Halifax.
100. iv. Arthur Watson, born i December, 1852.
V. Eunice Marie, born ii January, 1855.
vi. David Owen, born i November, 1859; in 1885 he lived in
Boston, Mass.
58. James Mason^ Eaton (Enoch’^, Elisha^, David\
James^^ Jonathan^ ^ Thomas’^, Joh'n})^ son of Enoch ^ and
Hannah (Rockwell) Elaton, born 20 April, 1824, married
25 November, 1850, Elizabeth Mary Vincent. In 1885
they lived {s.p,) in Moncton, New Brunswick.
59. George Wiswell^ Eaton {Enoch’^y Elisha^ y
D avidly James^y Jonathan^ y Thomas‘S y Johv})y son of
Enoch^ and Hannah (Rockwell) Eaton, born 2 October,
1834, married 25 February, 1856, Lucilla Harris, daugh-
ter of Elisha Harris, born 18 December, 1840. Resi-
dence, Berwick, King’s County, Nova Scotia.
Children:
i. Ralph Ellington®, born 25 November, 1859.
ii. Lavinia Olivia, born 2 May, 1862.
iii. Fanny Adelia, born 29 September, 1864.
iv. Burpee, born 24 June, 1866.
V. Frank George, born 19 October, 1868.
vi. Martha Lorena, born 10 February, 1872.
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lOI
vii. Lilian May, born 21 June, 1876.
viii. Howard, born 18 November, 1878.
60. Leonard* Eaton (William^ ^ Elisha^, David^,
James^, Jonathan^, Thomas‘S, Johv}), son of William^ and
Nancy (DeWolf) Eaton, born 15 May, 1810; married
I October, 1840, Elizabeth* Eaton, daughter of Jacob^
(Stephen*, David*), born 14 January, 1813. They were
both living in 1885, highly respected members of the
family. Residence, Lower Canard, Cornwallis. Mrs.
Eaton gave me valuable assistance in compiling my
record of the family in 1885.
Children:
101. i. Stephen Woodworth®, born 28 September, 1841.
102. ii. Everard Doe, born 5 January, 1844.
103. iii. Lawrence Hall, born 23 March, 1846.
iv. Anna Elizabeth, born 12 February, 1849.
V. Mary Eliza, born 8 September, 1851.
vi. Nancy Adelia, born 10 January, 1854; died 27 October,
1858.
104. vii. Newton Alfred, born 2 January, 1857.
61. Clement Belcher* Eaton {William'^ ^ Elisha^^
David^, James^y Jonathan^, Thomas’^ ^ Joh'n}), son of
William^ and Nancy (DeWolf) Eaton, born 26 April,
1824; married at Calais, Maine, ii October, 1859,
Rebecca Leonard Deming, born 13 July, 1839, daughter
of Lt.-Col. William and Sarah (Wilcox) Deming of
Calais. He was a merchant of excellent standing at
St. Stephen, New Brunswick. They died, s.p., some
time after 1885.
62. George William* Eaton {William^ Elisha^,
David^, James^y Jonathan^ ^ Thomas'^, Joh'n})^ son of
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William” and Nancy (DeWolf) Eaton, born 8 May,
1826; married 20 March, 1854, Clara A. Hallett, daugh-
ter of Elisha Hallet (presumably of Boston, Mass.)* In
1885 they lived at Melrose, Mass.
Children:
i. Emma®, born 25 July, 1855; died at three years old.
ii. George Radford, born 25 June, 1857.
iii. Clement Levi, born 15 October, 1859.
iv. Minorah \ ^ 1 i j- 1
V Evorah / J^i^^ary, 1862; both died young.
63. Joseph Henry^ Eaton {William^ Elisha^,
David}^ James^^ Jonathan^, Thomas^, Johv}), son of
William^ and Nancy (DeWolf) Eaton, born 20 July,
1828; married 2 October, 1849, Maria Fitch, daughter
of William Fitch, of Wolfville, King’s County. He died
by drowning 5 November, 1861.
Children:
i. Arthur William®, born 20 July, 1852; married 26 Septem-
ber, 1876, Adelia Gertrude Gilliatt, daughter of James
Gilliatt of Clementsport, Annapolis County, Nova
Scotia, and in 1885 had children: Maria Louise, born
30 September, 1877; Harriet Olivia, born 27 April,
1879; Nettie, born 8 May, 1882.
ii. Aubrey, born — September, 1855; died 20 November,
i860.
64. David Rupert^ Eaton {Davidd^ Elisha^, David’^,
James^, Jonathan^, Thomas‘S, Johrd), son of David ^ and
Susannah (Strong) Eaton, born 4 December, 1827;
married 24 February, 1853, Joanna ^Augusta Fitch,
daughter of William Fitch, of Wolfville. He died sud-
denly 20 November, 1883, ‘‘after a prosperous business
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103
career, during which he had become widely known and
universally respected.” He lived at Lower Canard, but
for a time at Parrsboro, Nova Scotia. For obituaries of
him see ^‘The Nova Scotia Eatons,” pages 77, 78.
Children:
11.
iii.
iv.
V.
105. vi.
vii.
viii.
ix.
X.
Laura Augusta^, born 7 January, 1854.
Ada Theodate, born 22 July, 1855.
Edgar Emerson, born 28 March, 1858.
Horace Eugene, born 6 May, i860.
Frederic Rupert, born 24 May, 1862.
Foster Fitch, born 12 September, 1863.
Aubrey William, born 28 February, 1867.
Harriet Maria, born 2 July, 1868.
Percy Havelock
William Bernard
born 14 October, 1870.
65. Charles Frederic^ Eaton {David\ Elisha^,
David^j James^, Jonathan^ ^ Thomas'^, Johrd), son of
David and Susannah (Strong) Eaton, born 24 April,
1830; married (i) 27 December, 1855, Eunice Ells,
daughter of Robert and Catherine (Eaton^) Ells, born
20 May, 1833, died 8 January, 1866. He married (2)
26 September, 1866, Eliza Jane Elder of Hantsport,
Nova Scotia, daughter of Samuel Elder. He was for
many years associated in business with his brother,
David Rupert Eaton; they built ships at ‘‘Eatonville,”
Three Sisters, Cumberland County, the firm name being
D. R. & C. F. Eaton. He died some time after 1885.
Children, by first wife:
i. Frederick Edmund®, born 15 October, 1856; died 27
April, 1859.
ii. Edwin Sheffield, born 16 October, 1858; died 5 May,
1859.
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Children, by second wife:
iii. Charles William, born 30 June, 1867; was graduated
B.A. at Acadia University in 1888. In 1888-89
studied medicine in New York City; but from 1889-
1892 he was engaged in the real estate business in
Vancouver, British Columbia; from 1892-1902 he was
engaged in placer mining in the Yukon gold fields. He
died in the Klondike District 22 January, 1902.
iv. Lewis Frederick, born 18 April, 1869; graduated at
Acadia University B.A. in 1890. From 1890 to prob-
ably 1899 he was engaged in lumbering in Cumberland
County, Nova Scotia. After that he was in business
in Boston, Mass.
The twenty-ninth of December, 1928, while this
memorial was going through the press, the Boston
Evening Transcript printed the following notice of the
death of the second son of Charles Frederick and his
second wife, Jane (Elder) Eaton:
“Lewis Frederick Eaton, news of whose sudden
death has been received from Pasadena, Cal., was
born in Kentville, N. S., about 1868. His boyhood
was spent in his home town where he attended the
public schools. He attended Acadia College, where he
was prominent in all athletics, especially in football.
He finished college in 1890 and went directly into the
lumber business with his father and brother, where he
remained from 1890 to 1896, when he left Nova Scotia
and came to Boston.
“Here in Boston he went into the leather business
with his uncle. On April 22, 1903 he married Flora H.
Luther of Newton and lived at 14 Babcock Street,
Brookline. About 19 ii he left the leather business
and went with the Washburn Crosby Company in
the sale of Gold Medal Flour. He was with this com-
pany from that time until his resignation in Minne-
apolis last August. He was successful in this work, and
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105
in 1915 was sent by the company to Cincinnati, Ohio,
to take charge of that office and surrounding territory.
Here, as in Boston, he made an enviable record which
resulted in 1920 in his being sent to Chicago and
placed in charge of that district. While there he built
up and managed the largest territory of the company,
leading all districts in the yearly sale of flour.
“In February, 1927, he was transferred to the head
office in Minneapolis, as vice-president and director
and placed in charge of the sales of the whole organ-
ization. He remained with the company in this capac-
ity until August, 1928, when he resigned. In Novem-
ber, 1928, he went to Pasadena, Cal., where he had
planned to make his home. He and Mrs. Eaton had
gone to Redlands, Cal., to spend Christmas with Dr.
and Mrs. William H. Walker, his brother and sister-
in-law. While there on Christmas Day he died from
an attack of heart failure. The body will be brought
East for burial.”
V. Edith Irene, born 27 February, 1872; married in 1895,
as his second wife, to William Sommerville Wood-
worth, M.D., who was graduated in medicine and
surgery from Harvard University in 1873, and later
at the New York Polyclinic, and had a long, success-
ful career as a physician in King’s County. The
Woodworths had children: Ruth Edwina; Eric Elder.
66. Levi^ Eaton {James’’, Elisha^, David’*, James'^,
Jonathan^, Thomas’^, Johrd), son of James^ and Hannah
(Strong) Eaton, born 22 October, 1832; married 24
December, 1855, Eunice Ann Ells, daughter of Joshua
Ells of Lower Canard, Cornwallis. Residence, Lower
Canard.
Children:
i. Leverett Eugene®, born 23 December, 1856; married 5
March, 1884, Edith Clementine Woodworth, daughter
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of Lewis and Emeline (Harris) Woodworth, of Boston.
They had one son, Eben Eugene, born 3 June, 1888.
Mrs. Eaton died 4 August, 1922. Mr. Eaton has
lived in Massachusetts for many years, with a home
at Milton.
ii. Agnes Lilian, born 19 January, 1859; died 17 February,
1865.
iii. Ernest Linwood, born 2 August, 1862.
iv. James Edwin, born i July, 1864; married Grace Belcher,
daughter of Col. William Belcher, and had four chil-
dren: i, William; ii, Estelle; iii, Marjorie; iv, Florence.
V. Walter, born 19 July, 1866; married (i) Minnie Burnaby;
(2) Evelyn Burnaby, and had in all four children:
i, Muriel; ii, Edward; iii, Gordon; iv, Gertrude.
vi. Mabel Irene, born 31 January, 1875; married to John
Borden.
vii. Caroline Maria, born 14 April, 1878; married to Leander
Burbidge.
67. Brenton Halliburton^ Eaton {James’^^
Elisha^, David^^ James^^ Jonathan^, Thomas’^ ^ Johv})^
son of James^ and Susannah (Strong) Eaton, born 8
August, 1837; married 4 August, 1870, Mary Jean
Evans, daughter of Llewellyn Evans, of Dartmouth,
Halifax, Nova Scotia. He died at his residence ‘‘Corn-
wallis,’’ Dartmouth, 7 December, 1916. Dr. Eaton was
graduated at Acadia University B.A. 1859, M.A. 1864,
and had the degree of Doctor of Civil Law conferred
upon him by his alma mater in 1899. After graduation,
he studied law in the office of Judge George A. Blanch-
ard at Kentville, and he was admitted to the Nova
Scotia Bar ii October, 1864. He was created a Queen’s
Counsel in 1883, and for many years was senior mem-
ber of the law firm of Eaton, Parsons & Beckwith, at
Halifax. For most of his professional career, from 1877,
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he served as a governor of Acadia University. He left
in print a record of founders and graduates of Acadia.
Children:
i. Llewellyn^, born 14 May, 1871.
ii. James Edwin, born 25 September, 1873.
iii. Isobel Jean, born 8 January, 1876, graduated at Acadia
University B.A. 1898, M.A. 1902; married in 1908 to
E. O. Patterson, and lived at Elk Creek, British Co-
lumbia.
iv. Stella Jean, born 16 February, 1880; died 17 July, 1880.
V. Blanche Mary, born 16 February, 1880.
vi. Brenton Halliburton, Jr., born 18 June, 1884; graduated
at Acadia University B.A. 1904, and became a clerk
in the Bank of Nova Scotia in 1907.
68. Gideon^ Eaton {Timothy'^, Timothy^, David^^
James^, Jonathan^, Thomas^ ^ John^), son of Timothy^ and
Sarah Ann (Westcott) Eaton, born 16 September, 1822;
married (i) 3 August, 1843, Ann O’Donnell, born —
February, 1823, died at Kentville 19 January, 1851;
(2) at Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, 7 December, 1851,
Sophia Elizabeth Leary, born at Lunenburg, Nova
Scotia, 10 February, 1827. He died at Yarmouth 18
June, 1877. She died 7 April, 1915.
Children, by first wife:
i. James Edwin^, born 17 September, 1844; married 14
November, 1868, Janet Augusta Dickey, daughter of
Thomas and Sophia (Clark) Dickey. He lived at
Dorchester, Boston, Mass. He had children, two of
whom were Pitt Ephraim; and Thomas Edwin.
ii. Nancy Sophia, born 24 January, 1846; married to Isaac
Schofield, and had six children: Jacob; Thomas;
Alinnie; Eaton; Brenton; Caroline.
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iii. Gideon, Jr., born 14 September, 1848; married Allie
Duncanson of Gaspereau, Nova Scotia, and died about
1881, his widow then being married to Charles Rath-
bone. He left one son.
iv. Otho, born 24 September, 1849; married and probably-
had children, but I have no record of him. He may
have lived in New York City.
V. Anne, born 14 January, 1851; died 21 July, 1855.
Children, by second wife:
vi. William Webster, born 15 September, 1852; was lost
at sea 12 October, 1871.
vii. George Frederic, born 19 February, 1854; married 25
December, 1880, Alice Pitman, born in Ohio, Yar-
mouth County, 12 September, 1866. He lived at Yar-
mouth. He had. children; Murray, born 22 February,
1882; Jennie, born 2 November, 1884.
viii. John Chipman, born 16 September, 1855; died at Kent-
ville 15 April, 1857.
ix. Sarah Ellen, born 23 June, 1858; married to George
Fenderson of Boston, Mass.
X. Wallace Stephen Dexter, born 15 September, i860, lived
in Boston.
xi. Walter Stuart, born 19 April, 1862; married Augusta
Jones, of Weymouth, Nova Scotia, and has two chil-
dren: Mary Elizabeth; Florence Katherine.
xii. Norman Bond, born 21 February, 1863. He lived at
Yarmouth.
xiii. Eliza Katherine, born 9 November, 1865; married to
Harry K. Fenning, of Lynn, Mass., and has three
children: Ralph Foster; Walter Arnold; Ethel Mae.
xiv. Martha Jane, born 22 November, 1868. This family
have been and are members of the Anglican Church.
69. William Henry® Eaton {Timothy\ Timothy^,
David^^ James'^, Jonatha7i^^ Thomas^, Joh'n}), son of Tim-
othy^ and Sarah Ann (Westcott) E^ton, born 28 April
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109
1826; married 17 April, 1853, Armanilla Stevens, daugh-
ter of Jacob Stevens of South Alton, King’s County.
He died 2 August, 1879, at Cochituate, Mass.
Children:
i. Enos Eldridge®, born 3 March, 1854; married 4 June,
1881, Jennie Wagner, of Oregon, and lived in Oregon.
ii. Mary Eliza, born 27 January, 1856; died aged three days.
iii. Arthur Stanley, born 2 August, 1857; died aged two
days.
iv. Josephine Elizabeth, born 8 September, 1858; died aged
three days.
V. Anna Maria, born 10 September, 1859; died aged three
days.
vi. Susannah Selina, born 12 April, 1861; married 31 Octo-
ber, 1880 to H. Whittemore of Bay City, Michigan.
vii. Jacob Ellsworth, born 9 December, 1863; died 15 Janu-
ary, 1864.
viii. Sarah Alice, born 16 June, 1866; died i July, 1866.
ix. Loretta May, born 4 April, 1868.
X. Caroline Lavinia, born 8 June, 1871.
70. Otho* Eaton {Timothy\ Timothy^ ^ David^y
James^^ Jonathan^ , Thomas‘S, John^)^ son of Timothy^
and Sarah Ann (Westcott) Eaton, born 9 November,
1830; married 16 March, 1855, Henrietta Sophronia
Gould, daughter of William Gould, deputy sheriff of
King’s County. He lived at Kentville.
Children:
i. Caroline Grace®, born 9 July, 1866.
ii. Rufus Edmund, born 27 July, 1873; died — October,
1879.
71. Robert Albert^ Eaton {Timothy'^, Timothy^ ^
David'% James^^ Jonathan^ , Thomas’^ ^ John^)^ son of Tim-
no
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othy^ and Sarah Ann (Westcott) Eaton, born 30 April,
1836; married 25 August, 1858, Emeline A. Turner,
born I February, 1836. He died 16 July, 1876. Resi-
dence, South Boston, Mass.
Children:
i. Arthur Stanley^, born 27 July, 1859.
ii. Elma Euana, born 27 November, 1862; married —
July, 1878 to Bradford Kempton Pineo, son of David
Pineo of New Minas, King’s County. Child: Welford.
iii. Norman Albert, born 4 November, 1863.
iv. Nancy Sophia, born 28 November, 1865; died 23 Decem-
ber, 1865.
V. Perry Wilbur, born 30 July, 1870.
vi. Harriet Belle, born 15 August, 1873.
vii. Charles Rupert, born 19 December, 1876.
72. Jonathan Rand^ Eaton {Caleh^^ Elijah^, David^^
James^^ Jonathan^ ^ Thomas‘S , John^), son of Caleb ^ and
Jane (Rand) Eaton, born 27 September, 1812, in Corn-
wallis; married 6 December, 1837, at Deer Isle, New
Brunswick, Silvinia Herson. He was lost at sea — Jan-
uary, 1847. His widow died at Deer Isle i December,
1863.
Children:
i. Elizabeth Jane^, born 12 January, 1839; married 21
August, 1859, William Johnson of Deer Isle, and had
children: Alice E.; Bertha; Adelia; Seward H.; Harriet
Maud; Willard Milton. In my “Nova Scotia Eatons,”
page 84, I thank Mrs. Johnson for the great help she
has given me in relation to this part of the Eaton
genealogy.
ii. Naomi Caroline, born 2 January, 1841; married 16 Jan-
uary, 1864, Gradis Johnson, of Deer Isle, and had
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III
children: Amy Gertrude; Caroline May; Lilian;
Fannie; Sllvinia; Ida Stella.
Hi. Asa Caleb, born 19 August, 1843; died 22 November,
1862.
Iv. Charles Alfred, born 27 June, 1845; married 17 January,
1868, Caroline Rose Cook, of Steuben, Maine, born 30
August, 1847. In 1885 they had children: Frank Her-
bert^®, born 27 April, 1872; George Alfred, born 30
April, 1880.
V. Jonathan Rand, born 28 July, 1847. In 1883 he was a
sea captain and sailed out of Gloucester, Mass.
73. Abel Benjamin^ Eaton {Caleb^^ Elijah^^ David^^
James^^ Jonathan^ ^ Thomas'^y John^)^ son of Caleb ^ and
Jane (Rand) Eaton, born 23 October, 1833; married
2 April, 1856, Sarah E. Stivers, of Deer Isle, born 27
October, 1834. Residence, Deer Isle.
Children:
i. Annie®, born 9 February, 1837; married 16 December,
1880 to Charles Gardner and had children. “Nova
Scotia Eatons,” page 83.
il. Elizabeth, born 13 August, 1839; married 22 February,
1881 to Harvey Leonard.
lil. Orinda, born 28 June, 1861; married 16 November, 1880
to Wesley Lambert, and In 1883 had a child, Wallace
Lambert.
iv. Catherine, born 26 April, 1864; married 13 April, 1882
to Charles Greenlaw, and had a child, Laleah May.
V. Gertrude, born 30 May, 1867.
vl. Ada May, born ii May, 1871.
vli. Melbourne, born 23 October, 1874.
74. James Edward^ Eaton {Elisha^ ^ Elijah^, David^,
James'^^ Jonathan^ ^ Thomas'^, John^)^ son of Elisha^ and
Mary (Beckwith) Eaton, of Aylesford, King’s County,
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born 3 December, 1835; niarried ii February, 1857,
Rebecca B. Stronach, born in Aylesford 18 December,
1836.
Children:
i. Frederick Stanley®, born 17 January, 1858.
ii. William Nelson, born 14 September, 1859; died 3 April,
i860.
iii. Charles Edward, born 17 September, 1862. He is a
clergyman, and for eighteen years has been a hospital
chaplain at Boston, Mass., acting for the “Evangel-
istic Association of New England,” a combination of
so-called “evangelical” churches. In its printed re-
ports this Association gives Mr. Eaton high praise for
his great kindness and rare efficiency in ministering to
the sick. He is married and lives at 25 Oak Street,
Milton, Mass. He has one son, Edward Stanley^®,
who lives in Denver, Colorado.
iv. Flora Blanche, born 17 September, 1866; died 16 Janu-
ary, 1867.
V. Mary Eliza, born 28 July, 1868.
vi. Rebecca Adelia, born 19 February, 1871.
vii. Seffie Inez, born 19 September, 1875. See “Nova Scotia
Eatons,” page 85.
75. Mayhew Emerson^ Eaton {Elisha^ ^ Elijah^,
David^^ James^y Jonathan^, Thomas^ ^ Joh'n}), son of
Elisha^ and Mary (Beckwith) Eaton, born 14 Septem-
ber, 1840; married (i) 28 March, 1876, Theresa Kilcup,
born 10 May, 1846, died ii May, 1878; (2) 13 July,
1881, Lucy Olivia Armstrong of Nictaux, Annapolis
County, Nova Scotia, born 14 March, 1841. Residence,
North Kingston, Aylesford, Nova Scotia.
Child, by second wife:
i. Bertha Maria Lavinia®, born 20 May, 1883.
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113
76. Joseph Henry^ Eaton {Elisha\ Elijah^^ David"%
James^, Jonathan^, Thomas^ ^ JohrO), son of Elisha^ and
Mary (Beckwith) Eaton, born 29 November, 1842;
married 13 April, 1870, Flelen Sophia Rhodes of Ayles-
ford, born 15 October, 1844. Residence, North Kings-
ton, Aylesford.
Children:
i. Myrtle Eudora^, born 10 April, 1871; died i May, 1871.
ii. Jessie Blanche Sutherland, born 15 February, 1875.
77. George William^ Eaton {Elisha'^, Elijah^^
David} ^ James^y Jonathan^ ^ Thomas'^ , Johrd)^ son of
Elisha^ and Mary (Beckwith) Eaton, born 18 March,
1845; married 10 November, 1871, Louisa Magee of
Aylesford, born — October, 1847. He was a merchant
at Auburn, King’s County, and a man highly respected.
Children:
i. Ethel Maude®, born i December, 1876.
ii. Ernest Scott Magee, born 13 September, 1883; married
— July, 1909, Hazel B. Andrew. He was graduated
B.A. at Acadia University 1903, Maritime Business
College (Flalifax, N. S.) C.A. 1907. He has been Vice-
Principal of the Union Commercial College, Charlotte-
town, P. E. I.; Principal of the Business Department
of the Maritime Business College; Principal of the Al-
berta Business College, Edmonton, Alberta; Manager
of Success Business College, Vancouver, B. C., and
of the Sprott-Shaw Business College; and Bursar and
Registrar of Brandon College, Manitoba (which posi-
tion he filled in 1926). See “Acadia University Gradu-
ates,” pages 140, 141.
78. Asael^ Eaton (Guy\ David^, David^^ James'^,
JonathaT}^ Thomas^ ^ Johv}), son of Guy^ and Lydia
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(Rockwell) Eaton, born 7 February, 1813; married 28
December, 1842, Amanda^ Eaton (Judah^ David®,
David®), his first cousin. He removed to Hardin, Ala-
makee County, Iowa, between 1856 and 1859.
Children:
i. Lydia Ann®, born 13 December, 1843; died in Iowa, un-
married, 30 April, 1861.
ii. Mary Elizabeth, born 6 September, 1845; married 6
September, 1864 to James McNutt, and died 5 April,
1866.
iii. Mayhew Wells, born in Wisconsin, i August, 1849; mar-
ried 28 May, 1879, Ella Minett. Residence in 1885,
Waukin, Alamakee County, Iowa. Children in 1885:
Nellie, born 16 April, 1880; Dora, born 24 March,
1882; Arthur, born 10 November, 1883.
iv. Davenport Chipman, born in Wisconsin, 19 September,
1852. In 1885, he lived in Waitsburg, Walla Walla,
Washington. He was then unmarried.
V. Ruth Maria, born in Illinois, 17 January, 1854; married
9 November, 1870 to Lucius Henry Magee.
vi. Rupert Asael, born in Wisconsin, 28 December, 1856;
married 23 December, 1880, Nancy Minett. Resi-
dence, Waukin, Alamakee County, Iowa. Children:
Minnie, born 20 September, 1882; Jay J., born 23
August, 1883.
vii. David J., born 29 May, 1850; married 9 June, 1881,
Frances Jennison, but in 1885 had no children. Resi-
dence, Luana, Claton County, Iowa.
79. Guy® Eaton {Guy'^, David^^ David^^ James'^, Jona-
than^, Thomas‘S, John^), son of Guy^ and Lydia (Rock-
well) Eaton, born 6 August, 1821; married (i) 8 May,
1844, Margaret Manning® Eaton (Davids Elisha®,
David®). She died 29 December, 1845; (2) 19 April,
1849, Eunice Wells Belcher, daughter of John and Ma-
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115
tilda (Wells) Belcher. He died 17 December, 1907;
she died 27 January, 1900.
Child, by first wife:
106. i. Charles Henryk born 18 May, 1845.
Children, by second wife:
ii. Margaret Ann, born 22 February, 1850; died in infancy.
iii. Margaret Elizabeth, born 16 January, 1852; died 3
March, 1903.
107. iv. Frederick William (twin with Margaret Elizabeth).
V. James Edward, born 16 November, 1854; married 9
December, 1891, Adelia Woodworth, daughter of
Douglas Nathan and Asenath (Ells) Woodworth. He
died 3 May, 1927. Children: Alice Asenath, born 26
September, 1892; Laura Jean, born 28 April, 1895;
Julia Woodworth, born 3 July, 1898; married 12
April, 1922 to Nathaniel Faulkner Eagles, of North
Grand Pre, and has four children,
vi. Alfred, born 16 February, 1863; drowned — April, 1865.
80. John Wells ^ Eaton (Guy'^, David^, David^,
James'^, Jonathan^ ^ Thomas^ , Johrd), son of Guy^ and
Lydia (Rockwell) Eaton, born 14 December, 1827;
married 28 October, 1851, Delana Crossman, born in
Burnham, Maine, 21 September, 1831. He was a
soldier in the American Civil War. Residence, Minne-
apolis, Minnesota.
Children:
i. John Franklin®, born 12 August, 1852, at Oldtown,
Maine; married i January, 1880, Annie Moulton, born
12 July, 1854, in Quincy Adams County, Wisconsin.
He was in 1885 a teacher of music in Minneapolis,
Minn. They had no children in 1885.
ii. Frederic Follett, born 13 May, 1865.
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8i. Wells ^ Eaton {Judah\ David^, David^, James^,
Jonathan^, Thomas-, Joh'n}), son of Judah^ and Eunice
(Pineo) Eaton, born 2 March, 1822; married 26 March,
1845, Mar\" Wood, of Cornwallis, born 14 xApril, 1826.
After marriage they moved almost at once to Wiscon-
sin, where their children were born. He died, highly
respected, at Postville, Alamakee County, Iowa, 6 May,
1881. For obituary notices of him of great interest, see
“The Nova Scotia Eatons,” pages 87, 88.
Children:
i. William Albert®, born 29 September, 1846; died 10 Jan-
uar}', 1866, in Iowa.
ii. George Edwin, born 7 March, 1849; married 15 Febru-
ary, 1871, Alice Lull, born in New York State, 15 May,
1885. Children: Edith, born 25 April, 1872; died 9
December, 1877; Ruba Oddest, born 26 October, 1875,
died — December, 1877; Frank W., born 5 April,
1880.
Hi. Maria Ellen, born 10 May, 1851; married 8 March, 1871
to Nahum Howe, born , 1850.
iv. Wells Wentworth, born 8 April, 1853; married 12 May,
1876, Ella E. Hall. Children: Cloy Wells, born 23
July, 1876; Mysta Mabel, born 27 May, 1878; Harvey
Hall, born 12 May, 1883. Residence, Yale, Guthrie
County, Iowa. (The above four children of Wells*
were born in Wisconsin.)
V. Marietta, born 15 Februar>", 1855; married 7 November,
1877 to Charles B. Martin, born in 1852.
vi. Margaret Eunice, bom 23 March, 1857; married 6 Janu-
ary', 1878 to John S. Dosser, born in 1852.
\*ii. Amanda Jane, born 23 December, 1859; married 23
December, 1880 to Henr>’ S. Harris, born in i860,
viii. Eliza Ann, born 13 December, 1861 ; married 13 Decem-
ber, 1882 to George Waters, born in 1858. (These four
daughters of Wells* were born and lived in Iowa.)
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ix. Frank L., born 19 January, 1864.
X. Alfred Watson, born 14 February, 1866; died 27 April,
1867.
xi. Scott Willis, born i March, 1868.
82. Gurdon^ Eaton (David? ^ David^, David^, James^^
Jonathar?^ Thomas‘S, Johrd), son of David^ and Jerusha
(Rockwell) Eaton, born 25 July, 1816; married (i) 23
December, 1840, Mary Rockwell, daughter of Benjamin
Rockwell, born 28 October, 1813. His wife died 12 Octo-
ber, 1851, and he married (2) 24 March, 1852, her
sister, Elizabeth Rockwell, born 5 January, 1826. He
died at Hantsport, where he had lived, 13 February,
1885.
Children, by first wife:
i. Mary Jerusha®, born 25 September, 1841; married 25
September, 1861 to Watson Ells, and died 24 Decem-
ber, 1849. Children: Charles; Kate; Louis.
ii. Eunice Ann, born 25 December, 1844; married 12 Octo-
ber, 1867 to Thomas Cox, son of William Cox and
his wife, Alice^ (Eaton), daughter of John®. Children:
Alice; Fannie; Ora; Laura; Jennie.
Children, by second wife:
iii. Asael Emerson, born 7 February, 1853; died 7 April,
1854.
iv. Edgar Burton, born 16 April, 1855; married 4 May,
1875, Mary Reid, daughter of Ezra and Tabitha (Ells)
Reid. Her mother, Tabitha, was a daughter of Sophia
(EatonO Ells, daughter of John® Eaton. Residence,
Canning, King’s County. Children: Laura, born 14
February ; Ella, born 12 December, 1882; died
young.
Ella Elizabeth, born 22 August, 1859; married 27 Sep-
tember, 1881, at Hantsport, N. S., to Joseph Nelson.
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Children: Edgar Eaton; George Barker. Residence,
Staten Island, New York.
vi. Laura Jeanette, born 24 May, 1862.
vii. Gordon Noble, born 23 September, 1865; died 9 May,
1866.
viii. Oressa May, born 4 August, 1869.
ix. Bessie Leona, born 19 October, 1872.
83. George Edward^ {David\ David^, David^,
James^^ Jonathan^ ^ Thomas‘S ^ Johrd)^ son of David ^ and
Jerusha (Rockwell) Eaton, born 14 October, 1822; mar-
ried 13 April, 1841, Nancy Wood, daughter of Daniel
Wood. He was a merchant at Canning, King’s County.
Children:
i. Abigail^, born 29 January, 1842; died young.
ii. Emily Eddany, born 19 April, 1843; married 17 August,
1861 to Wentworth Harry Newcomb, and had five
children. See Newcomb Genealogy.
iii. David Henry, born 29 January, 1845; married in 1868,
Bessie Henigar, daughter of Rev. James Henigar, a
well-known Wesleyan clergyman. Residence, Kent-
ville, King’s County. Children: Robie Dimock, born
27 July, 1869; Nellie Henigar, born 28 February, 1870.
iv. Gurdon Sturtley, born 10 November, 1847; married 17
February, 1876, Florence McGinnis, of Los Angeles,
California; in 1885 engaged in mining and ranching in
Tucson, Arizona. Children: Edward Gurdon, born 10
December, 1876; Louis Stickely, born 2 May, 1878.
V. Abigail Jerusha, born 9 September, 1849; married to
Walter S. Fifield. She died before 1885.
vi. Nancy Lavinia, born 18 November, 1851; married to
Richmond W. Kinsman of Cornwallis. She died before
1885.
vii. Flannah Charlotte, born 29 October, 1853; died before
1885.
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viii. Charlotte Anne, born 13 November, 1855; died before
1885.
ix. George Edward, born 7 October, 1857; in 1885 was living
in the United States, probably unmarried.
108. X. Marshall Starr, born 20 June, 1859.
xi. Lewis, born 29 February, 1862; unmarried in 1885.
84. Joseph Edwin^ {Levi JVells\ David^, David^^
James'^, Jonathan^, Thomas’^^ John^), son of Levi Wells^
and Mary Eliza (Northup) Eaton, born ii June, 1838;
married 28 October, 1868, Eunice Eliza Woodworth,
daughter of Benjamin B. Woodworth of Canning. He
was postmaster at Kentville for some years.
Children:
i. Harry Northup^, born 18 November, 1869; died 27 July,
1870.
ii. Mary Eliza, born 6 May, 1871.
iii. Nellie Woodworth, born 6 June, 1874.
iv. Douglas Brenton, born 5 January, 1876.
V. Prudence Emily, born 21 April, 1878.
vi. Joseph Levi, born 2 March, 1881.
85. Nathan Woodworth^ Eaton {Levi Wells'^ ^
David^, David^^ James^, Jonathan^, Thomas'^, Johrd), son
of Levi Wells^ and Sarah Ellis (Woodworth) Eaton, born
17 April, i860; married 21 July, 1881, Minnie Beatrice
Bigelow, daughter of John E. and Hannah (Blenkhorn)
Bigelow. Mr. Eaton, like his father, a superior and very
active man of business, has had a long, interesting, use-
ful career in his native county of King’s. His father, as
I have stated, was a merchant and shipbuilder, and the
son at the age of twenty-one went to Spencer’s Island,
Cumberland County, to manage his father’s business
there. In this he became partner in 1884, three years
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after he started as a clerk, the firm building the largest
ships at the time constructed in Cumberland County.
In 1896 Nathan Woodworth Eaton returned to King’s
County and at Canning established the firm of ‘‘Eaton
& Company,” of which he was sole proprietor, conduct-
ing the largest flour and feed business of the county
until the outbreak of the War in 1914. Since then Mr.
Eaton has done an active real estate business at Wolf-
ville and Canning. He was one of the original promot-
ers and owners of the Parrsboro Shore Telephone Com-
pany, the first rural telephone company in Nova Scotia,
established in 1885; in 1900 he built a telephone line
from Canning to Scott’s Bay. He has long been active
in politics for reform and he was nominated in 1908 for
the Federal Parliament, obtaining probably the greatest
popular vote ever freely given in the county. In 1911
he contested the County (as a conservative), but was
defeated by a small majority. He has always stood for
the best welfare of the county, “placing principle be-
fore party,” in religion being wholly liberal, with no
church affiliations whatever. As an advocate of “Tem-
perance” he has filled the office of Grand Worthy Patri-
arch in the “Sons of Temperance.” The father of Mrs.
Eaton was a son of Ebenezer Bigelow, who with his
second son, Gideon Bigelow, formed the firm long most
active in shipbuilding in King’s County, “E. Bigelow
& Sons.” In shipbuilding days the Bigelows built the
largest number of vessels launched by any one concern
in King’s County.
Children:
i. Victor Bigelow®, born 20 November, 1883; married 25
December, 1905, Leta Margaret Chisholm of Wolf-
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ville, Nova Scotia. They have children: Robert B.,
born 19 September, 1906; Nathan Woodworth, Jr.,
born — June, 1908; Florence Bishop, born i Septem-
ber, 1912; Reginald Curren, born 8 July, 1917. Mr.
Eaton is a merchant at Wolfville.
ii. Stella Ellis, born 16 December, 1887; married 29 Decem-
ber, 1909 to Leander^° Eaton, Jr. (Alfred^, Leander®,
Ward^). Children: Olive Elaine, born i May, 1912;
Eleanor Ruth, born 16 March, 1917; Alfred Levi, born
25 March, 1920; Miriam Beatrice, born 30 January,
1926.
hi. Annie Louise, born 18 December, 1889; married 7 Jan-
uary, 1913 to Charles Hemmeon Wright, son of Charles
H. and Mary® Sophia (Eaton) Wright, grandson of
Leander® and great grandson of Ward^ and Eunice
Deborah^ (Eaton) Eaton. Mr. Wright is one of the
most far-seeing business men of King’s County, and
has done much for the welfare of the county. Chil-
dren: Jean Elizabeth, born 28 February, 1914; Charles
Graham, born ii April, 1919; Rhoda Valentine, born
I February, 1921. Residence, Wolfville.
iv. Levi Erie, born 9 April, 1892; married 20 or 21 July,
1914, Ethel De Silva Robinson, daughter of Ernest
William Robinson, B.A., Principal of Horton Acad-
emy. Children: Harrison Worth, born 21 April, 1915;
Constance R., born 24 February, 1916; Harry Ran-
dolph, born 20 August, 1918. He is connected with
an important business firm in Toronto, Canada.
v. Emily Woodworth, born 4 April, 1894; married 24 Sep-
tember, 1919 to Royal Warner DeWolfe, an active
business man of Wolfville. Children: Royal Owen,
born 7 May, 1921; John Eaton, born 9 June, 1927.
vi. Cedric, born 4 July, 1897; died 4 October, 1897.
vii. Nathan Sheldon, born 17 June, 1900; married 3 October,
1921, Janet Edwards of Ontario. Child: John Gordon,
born 21 April, 1927. Fie is Canadian Express Agent
at Exeter, Ontario.
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viii. Ruby Beatrice, born 23 February, 1902; married i
November, 1923 to Frank Huston, Jr., merchant of
Wolfville.
ix. Hartley Emerson, born 16 August, 1906; married 8
September, 1927, Amy Elizabeth Balcom, of Youngs-
town, New York, born 12 December, 1885. They have
one child, L. Victor, born 29 July, 1928. They live at
Niagara Falls, New York.
86. Leander^ Eaton {Ward’^, John^ and Elisha^, Da-
vid^, — James^^ Jonathan^, Thomas‘S, John^), son of Ward
and Deborah (Eaton) Eaton, born 25 December, 1821;
married 22 May, 1850, his second cousin, Pauline Starr,
daughter of Samuel and Susannah (Cox) Starr (also,
through her mother, descended from the Eatons), born
29 July, 1823. They were married at St. John’s Church,
Cornwallis, by the Rev. John Storrs, Rector. He died
13 November, 1895. Mrs. Eaton died 21 May, 1887.
They were buried in the cemetery at “Hamilton’s Cor-
ner.” Leander Eaton was one of the most conspicuous
men of King’s County, and his family have always
maintained the standing in the Province which their
parents gave them.
Children:
109. i. Alfred Starr®, born 20 June, 1851.
ii. Frances Susan, born 27 February, 1853 (unmarried).
iii. Mary Sophia, born 21 February, 1855; married at St.
John’s Church, Cornwallis, 3 November, 1873 to
Charles Hemmeon Wright, eldest son of Charles
William and Sarah Jane (Hemmeon) Wright of Hali-
fax, Nova Scotia, and has seven children.
iv. Florence Jane, born 30 August, 1856; married 19 August,
1880 to Charles Edward Ells of Cornwallis, son of
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Joshua and Mary Ann (Jackson) Ells, and have had
six children.
V. Ralph Samuel, born ii August, 1858; married 30 June,
1886, at St. James Church, Kentville, by Rev. John
Owen Ruggles, Rector, Alice Russell Hanson, daughter
of John F. and Mary Ann (Russell) Hanson, graduated
at the Ladies Seminary, Wolfville, N. S. They have
no children. Ralph Samuel Eaton has the honor of
having conceived the plan of and reared the famous
Hillcrest Orchard, near Kentville. He and his wife
are active members of St. James Anglican Church,
Kentville.
vi. Sarah Elizabeth, born ii October, i860; married 21 Sep-
tember, 1881 to Herbert Stairs, son of Hon. William
James and Susan Duffus (Morrow) Stairs of Halifax,
born 21 March, 1859. They have had four children.
Mrs. Stairs died, deeply lamented, for she inherited
and cultivated the finest qualities of her family, 29
April, 1924. Her children are: Edith, Mary Mac-
donald; Alice Eaton; William Herbert, born 8 June,
1902.
no. vii. Charles Cottnam Hamilton, born 10 December, 1863.
viii. Alice Maude, born 27 April, 1866; died at “Hillaton,”
Cornwallis, after a long illness, 15 October, 1909.
87. William^ Eaton {Ward\ John^ and Elisha^,
David^, James^y Jonathan^ ^ Thomas'^ ^ John^)^ son of
Ward^ and Eunice Deborah (Eaton^, was born at
Cornwallis 30 September, 1823, and married at St.
James Anglican Church, Kentville, by the Rev. John
Storrs, Rector, 15 February, 1849, Anna Augusta Wil-
loughby Hamilton, youngest daughter of Otho and
Maria (Starr) Hamilton, descended also from the Starrs
and DeWolfs, born at Kentville, ii September, 1828.
William Eaton died at “Elmwood,” Kentville, 3 May,
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1893; Mrs. Eaton died at Elmwood, 23 September,
1883.
Children:
111. i.
112. ii.
iii.
113. iv.
114. V.
115. vi.
vii.
Arthur Wentworth Hamilton®.
Frank Herbert.
Anna Morton; married to George Albert Layton, of
Truro, Nova Scotia, long of H. M. Customs in that
town. My brother-in-law was highly respected in his
native town of Truro, and for many years before his
death was active as vestryman and successively junior
and senior warden of St. John’s Anglican Church there.
My sister was also very active in the affairs of the
church, and there are tablets on the walls of St. John’s
to their memory, as also to that of Francis Paul Ham-
ilton Layton, their son and only child, who fell, a de-
voted young officer, in Flanders in the Great War.
Paul was born 13 April, 1888, and was graduated B.A.
and LL.B. at Dalhousie University, Halifax, after-
ward being admitted successively to the Nova Scotia
Bar and the British Columbia Bar. When the Great
War broke out he was practising law in Vancouver,
but he gave up his practice and took a commission.
In the service he acquitted himself nobly, until he
fell suddenly in the trenches 24 July, 1916. He was
buried in Flanders with many of his brave comrades
and there is a tombstone there at his grave. His name
is also on a tombstone in the cemetery at Truro, Nova
Scotia.
Rufus William.
Harry Havelock.
Leslie Seymour.
Emily Maria Hamilton, born 14 February, 1868; died
2 May, 1871.
In a memorial of my father I published shortly after
his death I have written of him very intimately but
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125
very justly, exalting his single-minded devotion to the
best interests of life, and to what he intelligently re-
garded as truth. The facts of his public life and services,
I have said, were briefly these: Educated at the Corn-
wallis schools and at Horton Academy, in his seven-
teenth year he entered the profession of teaching, and
for fourteen years was a highly successful teacher, espe-
cially of mathematics and classics. In 1854 he was
appointed a Commissioner of Schools, which office he
held, except during an interval of three years, for the
rest of his life. In 1865, the Government, acting through
the Council of Public Instruction, conferred upon him
the office of Inspector of Schools for King’s County, in
which in 1868 he was succeeded by the Rev. Robert
Sommerville, afterward for many years a clergyman in
New York City. At the time of my father’s appoint-
ment, the Free School Act had just come into force,
and his pacific temper and his courteous treatment of
the people of the county did much towards allaying the
discontent it had aroused. In 1859 he was appointed a
Commissioner in the Supreme Court of the Province,
and in 1870, as his father had been before him, a Justice
of the Peace. Sixteen years later, in 1886, Kentville,
the shire town of the county, where he had long resided,
one of the oldest and most beautiful towns in the Prov-
ince, was incorporated, and the prominent part he had
always taken in its public affairs, and his high standing
in the community naturally gave him a place at its
first Council Board. Soon after he was asked to accept
the position of Clerk and Treasurer of the town, and
this double office he held until his death.
Of his character I have written: ‘‘That which is the
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basis of true religion, sense of duty, with him never
weakened. His love for the right was a rock against
which temptation of all sorts beat in vain. His judg-
ments were, doubtless, sometimes wrong, but there
must be few men in the world with consciences more
undefiled than his. He was not free from regard for
the good opinion of others, but the morbid desire to be
conspicuous that characterizes so many, and indeed all
purely selfish ambitions, were foreign to his nature.
An atmosphere of thought and inquiry, through his
influence, pervaded his home, and his children will al-
ways remember with pleasure the dignified, clear Eng-
lish, an English formed from intercourse with the best
classics of our tongue, that he aways spoke and en-
couraged his family to speak.” Of his personal relations
to his wife and children, I have said: ‘Hn early life he
was strict, even stern, in discipline, and unable some-
times to enter into his children’s younger ways of
thought, but there never was a time when for them or
for his wife, whom he loved with rare devotion, he
would not have cut off his right hand had he felt that
their welfare required it. In the course of years he
grew not less but much more tolerant of ways of thought
that differed from his own, and after the death of his
wife the mellowing process in his whole nature was so
complete that he constantly seemed to grow more true
a saint.” At his funeral the respect shown his memory
was universal. His funeral was the largest that has ever
been known in the county; the schools were closed, the
court was suspended, public resolutions were passed,
and with general sorrow expressed, he was borne to
rest.
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My mother was the youngest of five sisters, all inter-
esting women, of whom she had the most beauty. She
was fond of society and was much admired, but she
had for her family the most tender solicitude, and she
gave them always the most faithful, motherly care.
She died comparatively young, after only ten days’ ill-
ness, and with my father and her little Emily, who died
young, she sleeps in our beautiful Oak Grove Ceme-
tery, just out of the town of Kentville.
88. John Rufus® Eaton {JVard\ John^ and Elisha^,
David^^ James^, Jonathan^ ^ Thomas’^^ John'^), son of
Ward^ and Eunice Deborah (Eaton^), born 3 July,
1826. He married (by the Rev. John Storrs, Rector),
I December, 1849, Josephine Collins Elamilton, daugh-
ter of Otho and Maria (Starr) Hamilton, born ii
December, 1826. He died 4 November, 1851, and his
widow was married (2) 5 August, 1863 to David Stuart
Hamilton, a graduate of King’s College, Windsor, Nova
Scotia, who was a notable classical scholar and teacher,
and who some time before his death (which occurred
4 May, 1874, Tuscaloosa, Alabama) received Holy
Orders in the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Dio-
cese of Alabama. Mrs. Stuart Hamilton died in Phila-
delphia, 9 March, 1900, having had five children by
Rev. David Stuart Hamilton.
John Rufus Eaton was head of the Ship Chandlery
and Commission firm of J. Rufus Eaton & Company in
Boston, and was drowned while rowing in Boston Har-
bor. He was a genial, generous fellow and was long
affectionately remembered by his family and friends.
His grave is still to be seen in Garden Cemetery, Chel-
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sea, Massachusetts, in which suburb of Boston he had
made his home.
Children:
i. Emma Maria^, born 12 January, 1851; died 8 June of
the same year.
ii. Grace Hunnewell, born 12 March, 1852; was married (i)
7 October, 1872 to William Collins Porter, of Water-
ford, New Jersey, who died 28 October, 1882, leaving
two sons : William Hamilton Porter, and F rank Ruggles
Porter. She was married (2) at St. James Church,
Atlantic City (by Dr. Arthur W. H. Eaton), 28 June,
1890 to Wilford Henry Chipman of Kentville, Nova
Scotia, only son of Col. Leverett De Veber and Nancy
(Moore) Chipman of “Oakdale,” Kentville, who also
died leaving two sons: Leverett De Veber Chipman,
born 17 April, 1891; Reginald Wemyss Chipman, born
5 June, 1892. Of these sons Leverett De Veber Chip-
man, who died young in military service at Halifax,
became a captain in the Canadian army. He mar-
ried 21 December, 1915, in England, Muriel Manners,
third daughter of Capt. John Manners of Bank House,
Deal, Kent, England, who bore him one son, Ian,
now in school in England. Reginald Wemyss Chip-
man holds a responsible banking position in Los
Angeles, California, where he and his mother live.
89. James Stanley^ Eaton {Ward\ John^ and
Eunice Deborah'^ ^ Elisha^, David^, James^, Jonathan^,
Thomas'^, John^), son of Ward^ and Eunice Deborah^
(Eaton) Eaton, was born 4 February, 1836, and married
28 May, i860, Janet Nicholson, born in Dumfries,
Scotland, daughter of Peter and Janet (Patterson)
Nicholson. Mr. Eaton died at Upper Canard, Corn-
wallis, 26 October, 1916; his wife having died 23 Sep-
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tember, 1912. He was for many years county clerk and
a commissioner of schools.
Children:
i. Clarence Ward^, born 8 March, 1861; married in Boston,
Mass., 25 September, 1894, Lucy Dunham Harmon,
daughter of George and Nancy (Bean) Harmon, of
Naples, Maine; died at Portland, Maine (his resi-
dence) 8 March, 1923. He had two sons: Stanley
Harmon, born 15 March, 1896; Harry Nicholson,
born 8 June, 1901.
ii. Agnes Lilian, born 4 December, 1862; married 9 June,
1885 to Rev. John Mackenzie Lowden, D.D., and died
at Portland, Oregon, 15 January, 1914. Children:
Ethel Marion, born 21 March, 1886, died 4 Decem-
ber, 1891; Gladys Lilian, born 25 January, 1893, mar-
ried to Oscar J. Raeder, M.D., physician, of Boston,
to whom she bore one son; George Stanley, born i
February, 1899, graduated from the Harvard Law
School in 1928.
116. iii. Walter Ernest, born 28 May, 1868.
117. iv. John Nicholson, born 10 September, 1874.
CHAPTER VII
NINTH GENERATION
90. Adoniram Judson^ Eaton {Thomas Woodworth^,
Jacoh'^^ Stephen^, David^^ James^^ Jonathan^ ^ Thomas‘S ^
Johrd), son of Thomas Woodworth^ and Mary Ann
(Withers) Eaton, was born at Granville, Annapolis
County, Nova Scotia, 16 October, 1850. He married in
1879 Adelia Woodman, who died in August, 1826, aged
seventy-six.
Children:
i. Eugene Courtlandt^°, born , 1881.
ii. Mary Judson, born , 1885.
iii. Brenda Dorothy, born , 1890.
iv. Herbert Vincent, born , 1892.
Dr. Eaton was graduated with honors in classics and
mathematics at Acadia University in 1873, receiving
his M.A. there in 1878. In 1874-76 he studied at Har-
vard, receiving another B.A. from that university in the
latter year. He received a Ph.D. from Leipzig, Ger-
many in 1885 (and a similar degree from Acadia in
1894). A member of his immediate family writes the
following description of him: ^‘Leaving Nova Scotia,
Dr. Eaton went to Harvard University and took there
a two years course in postgraduate study. At the close
of his studies at Harvard, having received the Morey
Foundation as a reward of scholarship, he entered Yale
University to take a doctor’s degree; after a residence
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131
of one year there, acting under the advice of Prof.
William Dwight Whitney, one of the greatest Sanskrit
scholars of his day, he resolved to finish his course in
classical philology and Sanskrit at Leipzig University.
Leipzig was at that time attracting scholars from all
parts of the world by a brilliant coterie of men in its
philological department, among whom were Professors
George Curtius, Ribbeck, Leskion, and Windisch, and
under them Professor Eaton studied and graduated
with high honors. He had the special privilege, also, of
being elected a member of the private seminars of Pro-
fessors Curtius and Ribbeck during the last two years
of his course at Leipzig, and he contributed several
papers which have found a place in the works of these
scholars. He received the degree of Ph.D. in 1885.
In 1886 Dr. Eaton was appointed Associate Pro-
fessor of Classics at McGill University. He was elected
a member of the American Oriental Society in 1886,
and of the American Philological Society in 1894. He
took a leading part in the formation of the Dominion
Educational Association and has edited several text-
books for college and school use, besides being a fre-
quent contributor to educational journals both in
Canada and the United States.
After a professorship of twenty-five years at McGill,
where he was exceedingly popular and was known as
one of the soundest classical scholars on the continent.
Dr. Eaton retired in 1911 in order to devote himself
exclusively to his duties as General Secretary of the
Canadian Department of the Archaeological Institute
of America, of which he was one of the leading spirits.
The year 1911-1912 he spent in an extended lecture
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tour under the auspices of the Archaeological Institute
in the western circuits of Canada and the United States,
organizing branch societies in Toronto, Ottawa, Que-
bec, Kingston, Hamilton, Halifax, St. John, Winnipeg,
Edmonton, Victoria, and Vancouver.
Since his retirement from McGill University in 1911
Dr. Eaton has resided at his charming country home
at Knowlton, Quebec, “where, hale and hearty at the
age of seventy-eight, he is spending his declining years,
as a wise man should, in cultivating his garden and
planting trees for posterity.”
91. Charles Rupert® Eaton {Oliver^, Jacoh'^^ Ste-
phen^, David^, James^, Jonathan^, Thomas‘S, JohvS)^ son
of Oliver^ and Emeline Mary (Day) Eaton, born 24
June, 1852; married 15 October, 1879, Rosanna Mel-
venia Young, born at Granville, Annapolis County, 26
January, 1853. He died — June, 1910. Residence,
Granville, Annapolis County.
Children:
i. Arthur St. Clair^°, born 19 January, 1881; married May
Buckley, and has two children: Hazel and Harold.
ii. Cora Belle, born i February, 1882; married to Jacob
Boyce, and has a daughter, Elizabeth.
iii. Charles Wentworth, born 9 November, 1883; married
Nellie , and has one child, Jean.
iv. Howard Frederick, born , 1885; married Clara
V. George Thomas, born , 1888; married Pearl
vi. Ethel Jean, born , 1888; twin with George Thomas.
vii. Reginald Leon, born , 1891; married Sonia
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viii. Stewart Bertram, born 2 October, 1893. He served in
the Great War in the Canadian forces, and was killed
in 1915.
ix. William Rupert Shannon, born ii November, 1894;
married , 1912, Eudora A. Mills of Granville,
Annapolis County and has one son, Rupert, born
1915. Mr. Eaton came to the United States in 1912,
and became a clerk in the Merchants National Bank
of Boston. In 1919 he was made treasurer of the Lex-
ington Trust Company of Lexington, Mass., remain-
ing in this position until 1928, when he was elected
Vice-President of the National Shawmut Bank of
Boston. Residence, Lexington, Massachusetts.
92. Joseph Howe^ Eaton {Stephen^, Amos\ Ste-
phen^, DavidP^ James^y Jonathan^, Thomas'^ ^ JohrP), son
of Stephen and Mary Desiah (Parker) Eaton, was born
at Pugwash, Cumberland County, 26 March, 1849. He
became an able business man in his native county, and
the owner of wide timber areas in the Province, in later
life extending his activities to large lumber and land
interests in the Canadian Northwest. He was deeply
interested in education and in all other things that made
for the welfare of the people of Cumberland. His home
for many years was maintained with elegance and with
the most unbounded hospitality, the Eatons of Pug-
wash being among the most important inhabitants of
Cumberland County. In later years Joseph Howe Eaton
has lived in Toronto, Ontario. He married, 1 1 February,
1871, Mary Adelia MacPherson, born 12 August, 1852,
daughter of John Wesley and Phebe (Ackerly) Mac-
Pherson of Pugwash, who died 29 August, 1922.
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Children:
i. ParkeF®, born 27 December, 1871; died 15 February,
1877.
ii. Gertrude May, born 16 June, 1873; died 23 February,
1877.
iii. Frank, born 2 April, 1877; died i March, 1880.
iv. John Wilbur, born 19 March, 1881; died — September,
1889.
118. V. Cyrus Stephen, born 17 December, 1883.
vi. Eva Ruth, born 30 August, 1885; married to True-
man B. Webb, , 1902. Residence, Edmonton,
Canada. They have children: Winifred Eaton;
Evelyn Mae; John; Margaret; Dorothy; Cyrus Wil-
fred.
vii. Florence Ada, born 5 July, 1888, educated at Acadia
Seminary and Acadia University, became a graduate
nurse in Massachusetts, and superintendent from
1915-1925 of a private hospital at Framingham, Mass.
In 1925 she resigned from this profession to broaden
her sphere of usefulness and enter more fully into
public life. In 1925-1927 she travelled in Europe, and
in 1927 and 1928 studied at Oxford University, the
Sorbonne, Paris, and King’s College, London Uni-
versity, specializing in Political Science, Political His-
tory, and Economics. Her present address is 2, White-
hall Court, London, S. W. i. Miss Eaton is looking
forward to a political career and in order to prepare
herself for this is making an intensive study of the
political and social conditions of the British Empire.
In the course of her preparation she is attending de-
bates in the House of Commons, and is thus bringing
herself into contact with modern political thought and
economic problems.
viii. Alice Gertrude, born 21 November, 1889; married 15
September, 1915, to Frederick Irving Woodworth,
graduated B.A. at Acadia University in 1909. Chil-
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135
dren: Frances; Frederick; Eaton. Residence, Cleve-
land, Ohio.
119. ix. Joseph Wilfred, born 28 February, 1895.
93. John Russell^ Eaton {Stephen^, Arnos'^ ^ Ste-
phen^, David}^ James^^ Jonathan^ ^ Thomas'^ ^ Joh'nS), son
of Stephen^ and Mary Desiah (Parker) Eaton, born
18 August, 1853; married 8 March, 1874, Margaret
Rea of Pictou, Nova Scotia, born 6 May, 1856. He
died at Pugwash, where he had lived, 8 September,
1878.
Children:
i. Arthur^”, born 16 December, 1875; died 26 June, 1876.
ii. Annie Creighton, born 13 August, 1878; married (i) to
Daniel C. Stone of Boston; (2) to Paul E. Ercoline,
and lives in Boston. By her first husband she had one
son, John Eaton Stone.
iii. Caroline; married to Mark Chesnutt, and lives at Pug-
wash River. Her children are: Earl Arthur, now a
student at Acadia University; Annie Muriel, now at
Boston University; Walter Millard, lives in Boston;
Caroline Marguerite.
94. Cyrus Black® Eaton {Stephen^ ^ Arnos'^ ^ Ste-
phen^, David^^ James^j Jonathan^ ^ Thomas'^^ John^), son
of Stephen^ and Mary Desiah (Parker) Eaton, of Pug-
wash, was born 8 December, 1857; and married 25
December, 1876, Margaret Whidden, daughter of Ste-
phen Whidden, Sheriff of the County of Antigonish.
He removed from Nova Scotia after the birth of his
first child, and settled in Denver, Colorado, in Decem-
ber, 1881. He died i March, 1914. His wife died 10
January, 1915.
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Children:
120. i. William Robb^®, born 17 December, 1877, at Pugwash.
ii. Emily Angell, born i October, 1879, at Cambridge,
Mass.; married (i) i August, 1900 to Orville Verner
Thomas; (2) to Emory Morse Crane.
iii. Cyrus Black, Jr., born 4 July, 1884 at Denver; married
January, 1905, Mildred Johnson, and has four
children: Cyrus D.; William Russell; Jean; Peggy.
95. Frederick Lane® Eaton {Stephen^^ Arnos'^ ^ Ste-
phen^, David}^ James'^, Jonathan^ ^ Thomas‘S ^ John^), son
of Stephen^ and Mary Desiah (Parker) Eaton, born 9
or 10 April, 1864; married Annie Forrest of Amherst
Head. He is living at Amherst, Cumberland County,
at the date of the publication of this book.
Children:
i. Harold^”, born 13 April, 1888; married Jane A. Mc-
Arthur, and has children: Merritt; John; Darrel.
Residence, Three Rivers, Quebec.
ii. Roy, born 24 December, 1892; married Mary Cum-
mings, and has a daughter, Evelyn. Residence, Spring-
hill, Cumberland County.
iii. Aubrey, born 3 September, 1895; married Helen Hender-
son. They live in Maine.
96. Charles Aubrey® Eaton {Stephen^, Arnos’^,
Stephen^, Davids ^ James^, Jonathan^, Thomas^ ^ Johrd)^
son of Stephen^ and Mary Desiah (Parker) Eaton, was
born at Pugwash, 29 March, 1868, and was graduated
at Acadia University B.A. 1890, M.A. 1893. He was
also given M.A. at McMaster University, Toronto,
1896. From Baylor University he received an honorary
D.D. in 1899, and from Acadia D.D. 1907. In 1916 he
was given LL.D. by McMaster University. After tak-
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ing a course in theology he was ordained to the ministry
in 1893, and he then served Baptist churches in suc-
cession as follows: at Natick, Mass., 1893-1895; Bloor
Street, Toronto, 1895-1901; Euclid Avenue, Cleve-
land, Ohio, 1901-1909; Madison Avenue, New York
City, 1909-1919. The churches he served during his
ministerial life were among the most prominent in his
denomination; the Bloor Street church in Toronto,
which had immediately previously been served by an-
other Nova Scotian, Rev. O. C. S. Wallace, is recog-
nized as one of the great churches in Canada of the
denomination with which Dr. Eaton was connected.
It comprised in its membership scores of university-
bred professional men, and men prominent in the polit-
ical and commercial life of Canada. The Euclid Avenue
church, in Cleveland, has similar prominence in its com-
munity to that of the Toronto church, and the Madison
Avenue church in New York was another of the great
churches of the Baptist body in America.
In 1895 Dr. Eaton was sent abroad as special Euro-
pean correspondent of the Toronto Globe^ and on his
return he became closely connected with the Globe^s
chief editor. Sir John Willison, who appointed him
sociological editor of his newspaper, which position he
held for five years. During part of his stay in Toronto
Dr. Eaton was also connected with Dr. J. A. Mac-
Donald of the Westminster, acting as well as special
correspondent from Canada for several of the great
United States dailies. In 1918, shortly before his pas-
torate of the Madison Avenue church ended, he be-
came editor-in-chief of Leslie^ s Weekly^ a publication
that was then reaching some three million readers, and
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in this important position he remained until 1921, his
influence thus of course widening every year.
In the years preceding the entrance of the United
States into the World War, Dr. Eaton’s discussions of
the issues involved in that great struggle attracted
world-wide attention, and in the fall of 1917 he was
called upon by the United States Government to take
up the work of increasing production in all the ship-
yards of the country. Until the end of the War he was
head of the National Service Section of the United
States Shipping Board. Later he was given jurisdiction
over a large number of industrial plants supplying
parts for ships.
Of his wonderful success in arousing interest in his
industrial policies through his writings while he was
editor of Leslie^ s Weekly, a State of Washington news-
paper, under the caption ‘‘Eaton Stirs the Nation,”
said: “Charles Aubrey Eaton, the editor of Leslie^ s, is
one of the noblest souls in Christendom, as well as
one of the ablest thinkers and writers. He did tre-
mendous good during the war, promoting public morale
and keeping millions out of the slough of despond.” At
the request of the editor of the London Times in 1919
Dr. Eaton wrote an article on industrial relations in
England which created unusual interest. In an edi-
torial accompanying this article the Times said: Dr.
Eaton “was appointed by the American Government
head of the National Service Section of the United
States Shipping Board. His work began, everywhere
helped by the presence of Mr. Schwab, no mean speaker
himself, and straightway the fire of their enthusiasm
kindled the men in the shipyards. There has been
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nothing in modern times like that crusade of work for
patriotic interests. Its results in the output of American
ships were well-nigh miraculous and its beginning as
well as its abiding inspiration was the faith of Dr.
Eaton. We recall these facts to show that what he
says in his article today is well worthy of thought.
These are not the theories of an unpractical idealist,
but the beliefs of an idealist who has proved the potency
of his ideals in the sphere of practical production.” In
his capacity as head of the National Service Section of
the United States Shipping Board, Emergency Fleet
Corporation in one year Dr. Eaton personally addressed
over a million workers and his staff spoke to several
millions more. After visiting with him all parts of the
country Mr. Schwab said of Dr. Eaton: ‘U regard
Charles Aubrey Eaton as the greatest living authority
on industrial relations problems in America.”
Ever since the War, Dr. Eaton has been associated
with the General Electric Company and other great
industries as counsellor in industrial relations, and the
fundamental principles which he worked out have been
adopted by many great industries of the country in
developing their progressive policies. Dr. Eaton’s first
principle is that the process he calls history is a process
of progress and not of decay. ^‘Progress,” he says, ‘Ns
the growing participation of more and more people in
more and more of the good things of life.” Fie believes
that just as the masses of men have achieved partici-
pation in the intellectual, spiritual and political re-
sources of the world, so now one common objective has
been consciously adopted by all the nations of the earth,
that objective to achieve for the masses of men the
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same share in the economic good things of the world
that they have already achieved in the other resources.
In 1925, Dr. Eaton was elected a member of Congress
for the Fourth New Jersey District, and this year
(1928) he w^as overwhelmingly reelected. He owns a
handsome estate at Plainfield, New Jersey, and is a
member of many clubs.
Dr. Eaton married 26 June, 1895, Mary Winifred
Parlin of Natick, Massachusetts, daughter of Capt.
William D. and Mary (Brown) Parlin.
Children:
i. Marion Aubrey^®, born 29 March, 1896, at Toronto,
Ontario; married to William Burwell of Providence,
Rhode Island, and has children: Robert Winsor; Amstis
Manton. She is an accomplished pianist, and has
been a pupil of Harold Bauer.
ii. Margaret Evelyn, born i August, 1897, at Marblehead,
Mass.; graduated B.A. from McMaster University;
married to Douglas Wilson Demler,of Watchung, New
Jersey, and has children: Douglas Wilson, Jr.; Mary
Evelyn.
iii. Frances Winifred, born 18 February, 1899, at Toronto;
married to Frederick Daniel Corey, of Buffalo, New
York, President of the Niagara, Lockport, and On-
tario Power Company. Child: Winifred Wilma.
iv. Charles Aubrey, Jr., born 10 September, 1901, at Cleve-
land, Ohio; Vice-President and founder of the Eaton-
Kent Incorporated Combustion Engineers, at New-
ark, New Jersey. He married Helen Howat Mc-
Donald of Watchung, New Jersey. Child: Charles
Aubrey, 3d.
V. Mary Rose, born 29 October, 1904, at Cleveland, Ohio;
married to Georges Jean His, of Basle, Switzerland,
Vice-President of Richard Briggs, Inc. of Boston,
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141
Mass. Child : Georges Noel His. Mrs. His is an accom-
plished violinist, a former pupil of Leopold Auer
Georges His is a great-grandson of Georges Jean His,
a former President of the Swiss Republic (whose name
was PierreOchs. Later in his career he took the French-
Huguenot name Flis, this being his wife’s name. This
was in 1811, and His has been the name of the family
since then).
vi. Catherine Starr, born 6 April, 1910, at Plainfield, New
Jersey.
97. Orletus Palmer^ Eaton {Asael Stephen‘s,
Stephen^, David}^ James^, Jonathan^ ^ Thomas^ ^ Johrd)^
son of Asael BilP and Maria (Palmer) Eaton, born 27
January, 1845, at Wilson, New York. He married 14
November, 1880, M. Josephine Mason, born in Ypsi-
lanti, Michigan, 5 August, 1862. He became a physician
and in 1885 lived at 280 Jefferson Avenue, Detroit,
Michigan. In ‘^The Nova Scotia Eatons,” pages 104,
105, I say: ‘‘Dr. Eaton removed from New York State
to Michigan with his parents at five years of age, and
at seventeen enlisted in the War of the Rebellion which
had been in progress one year. The date of his enroll-
ment in Company J, Fifth Michigan Cavalry was the
autumn of 1862, and he served as private for nearly
three years, until the close of the war, taking part in
many of the heavy battles that were fought by the
Army of the Potomac. During this time he suffered
much from sickness, and at the Battle of Boonsborough,
Maryland, July, 1863, received a gunshot wound in his
left wrist. ‘I seldom went into camp,’ he says, ‘for
any considerable time without having a run of fever of
some kind, recovering in time, however, to take part
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in the fight, when fighting was to be done.’ When the
war closed he resumed his farm work at home, studying
at intervals and during one winter teaching a district
school. Finally he began the study of medicine, and
attended lectures at the University of Michigan. After
practising successfully for a year at Bear Lake, he
came to Detroit and graduated at the Detroit Medical
College in 1872, since when he has been continuously
in practice in that city. He has served the City as City
Physician and member of the Board of Health, and he
belongs to the Wayne County Medical Society, the
Detroit Medical and Library Association, and the
Michigan State Medical Society.” He was a deeply
religious man.
Children (in 1885):
i. Maria Florence^®, born 16 September, 1881; died 13
November, 1881.
ii. Mabel, born 22 August, 1882.
98. Freeman Allen^ Eaton {Henry Allen^^ EnocK^^
Elisha^, David^, James"^^ Jonathan^, Thomas’^ ^ John^), son
of Henry Allen^ and Armanilla^ (Eaton) Eaton, born
29 January, 1858; married 19 April, 1882, Lena Clarke,
daughter of Leonard and Adargaret Clarke. Residence,
Canning, King’s County.
Children:
i. Flora Blanche^®, born 26 January, 1883 ; died 1 5 February,
1890.
ii. Henry, born 19 March, 1885; died 24 April, 1885.
iii. Frank Howard, born 7 Ivlarch, 1887; married 28 March,
1915, Lola Campbell of Freeport, Nova Scotia. Chil-
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dren: Jean Francis, born 31 May, 1919; Keith, born
6 July, 1922.
iv. Charles Reynolds, born 17 March, 1889; married 21
December, 1915, Frandena Gilroy of Vancouver,
B. C. Children: Ethel Margaret, born 20 February,
1918; Arthur, born 10 February, 1921.
V. Daisy Locke, born 28 June, 1891.
vi. Frederick Burton, born 28 November, 1893; married
19 January, 1921, Jean Borden. Children: Muriel
Beatrice, born 22 January, 1925, died 27 January,
1925; Ronald Lloyd, born 21 May, 1926.
vii. Helen Clough, born 14 December, 1896.
viii. Stanley Roy, born 17 January, 1899; married 6 July,
1922, S. Gwendolyn Stevens, of Freeport, Nova Scotia.
Children: Paul Carmel, born 14 March, 1924; Con-
stance Mina, born 22 September, 1927.
ix. Freeman Clarke, born 8 November, 1901; married 14
September, 1925, Winifred Wilson, of Springhill, Nova
Scotia.
99. Albert Edward® Eaton {Henry Allen^^ EnocK^^
Elisha^ ^ David^j James^^ Jonathan^, Thomas‘S, John^), son
of Henry Allen^ and Armanilla^ (Eaton) Eaton, born
21 July, i860, in Lower Canard, his mother and father
being first cousins. He married, 21 April, 1883, Emily
Charlotte Lockwood, born 21 July, 1861, daughter of
James Edward Lockwood and Charlotte (White), who
died — September, 1916. He is a farmer and fruit
grower at Lower Canard.
Children:
i. Winifred Amy^°, born 7 January, 1884. After 1907 she
prepared for missionary service in India, and in 1909
went to India under the Canadian Baptist Foreign
Mission Board and labored there in all nineteen years.
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In 1928 she is at Tuni, India, in charge of a Bible
training school for women.
ii. Warren Edward, born 23 December, 1886; married 1912,
Cora M. Borden, daughter of Aubrey Borden of
Canard, and has one child, Ella Mary, born — July,
1913-
iii. Ross Chipman, born 16 December, 1888; married ,
1914, Sophia Oxner, of Chester Basin, Nova Scotia,
daughter of Marcus Oxner, and has two children:
Kenneth Oxner, born , 1916; Donald Chester,
born , 1919. Rev. Mr. Eaton was graduated B.A.
from Acadia University in 1913, and at Newton Theo-
logical Seminary B.D. in 1917. He was ordained at
Amherst, Nova Scotia, in 1914, was minister of a
church at Mansfield, Mass., 1917-1920, at Matta-
pan. Mass., 1920-1922, at Charlottetown, P. E. I.,
1922-. He is considered one of the ablest clergymen
of any denomination in the Maritime Provinces.
iv. Gertrude Ethel, born 7 November, 1890. She graduated
B.A. at Acadia University in 1916, and 7 September,
1918 was licensed to preach in Baptist churches of
the Maritime Provinces. This is still her vocation.
V. Evelyn Anna, born i October, 1892. She took a course
of study in the Gordon Bible School, in Boston,
graduated as a nurse at the Royal Victoria Hospital,
Montreal, in 1921, and went to India under the Cana-
dian Baptist Foreign Missionary Board in 1922. Since
then she has been continually in hospital service in
India.
vi. Albert Kenneth, born 18 September, 1894. He enlisted
in army service in the World War with the 14th
Infantry Battalion, Royal Montreal Regiment, on
the seventeenth of August, 1914, and went over-
seas the next month. He was severely wounded in
active service in May, 1915, and until the close of the
war occupied positions in the Canadian Pay Office.
He returned to Canada in March, 1919, and gradu-
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ated from Acadia University B.A. in 1922. Later, he
went to England and studied in the School of Econom-
ics of London University, graduating there B.Sc. in
Economics in June, 1928. At present he is taking
graduate work in Economics at Harvard University,
vii. Emma Florence, born 18 August, 1896. She took a busi-
ness course at Acadia Collegiate Academy in 1917-
1918, and also studied special subjects at Acadia Uni-
versity. On the first of June, 1921, she was married
to Hugh Hamilton^® Eaton, son of Charles Cottnam
Hamilton® Eaton of Canard (Leander®, Ward^), and
has two children: Evelyn Winifred, born 7 December,
1922; and Vernon Hugh, born 10 January, 1926.
100. Arthur Watson^ Eaton {Benjamin^^ Enoch\
Elisha^ y D avidly James^, Jonathan^ ^ Thomas‘S, Johv}), son
of Benjamin^ and Sophia (Ells) Eaton, born in Corn-
wallis I December, 1852; married (i) ii June, 1878,
Frances Maria Hanmer of East Hartford, Connecticut,
daughter of William and Caroline E. Hanmer of East
Hartford, born 3 March, 1855, died 4 May, 1909; (2)
6 February, 1911, Katharine Amelia Learned of Pitts-
field, Massachusetts, daughter of George Y. Learned,
Esq., of Pittsfield, in his time a highly important resi-
dent in Berkshire. Mr. Eaton, a notable representative
of the Nova Scotia Eaton family, universally known in
the manufacture of paper throughout the United States,
after four years of training (from 1872) in a wholesale
house in Boston, began his distinguished business career
in East Hartford, Connecticut, in 1876, in 1883 becom-
ing a member of the Connecticut Legislature, repre-
senting East Hartford. He was made President of the
East Hartford Paper Manufacturing Company, and
after a successful management of that company in 1886
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became Treasurer and General Manager of the Hurlbut
Paper Manufacturing Company of South Lee, Massa-
chusetts, which company was sold some years later to
the American Writing Paper Company. In 1893 he
established the Hurlbut Stationery Company at Pitts-
field, Massachusetts, for the manufacture of high-grade
stationery. The name of this company was subse-
quently changed to ‘‘Eaton-Hurlbut Paper Company,”
and in 1908 again changed to Eaton, Crane, & Pike
Company,” at which time the Messrs. Crane of Dalton,
Massachusetts, became interested in the business and
the company became the sole manufacturing agent for
the product of the Z. & W. M. Crane mills at Dalton.
Since then the business has grown steadily until it has
become the largest of its kind in America, with branch
offices and warehouses in a number of the larger cities
of the United States and also a factory in Toronto,
Canada.
In 1927 Mr. Eaton resigned the presidency of the
Company of Eaton, Crane, & Pike and was elected
Chairman of the Board of Directors, his son Col.
William Hanmer Eaton, who has been connected with
the Company for many years, filling various offices,
including Treasurer and General Manager, succeeding
him as President. Mr. Eaton is recognized as one of
the foremost citizens of Pittsfield. His interest in its
religious, civic and political affairs is unbounded, and
his judgment and guidance are relied upon in all mat-
ters pertaining to its people’s welfare. He is a Congre-
gationalist and worships at the First Congregational
Church. His political affiliations are with the Republi-
can Party, of which he is an ardent supporter. He has
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never sought office, but as I have said, was elected to
and served in the Connecticut Legislature in 1883, and
he has served as a member of the Board of Aldermen
of Pittsfield for one year. During the World War he
gave unceasingly of his strength and time on various
committees, including the Liberty Loan, of which he
was Chairman, Fuel, Food Conservation, etc., and by
unstinted loyal service and generous contributions he
supports every plan for the advancement of the com-
munity in which he lives. His residence is ‘‘Mountain-
lea,” Pittsfield. Clubs: Union League of New York;
Nayasset of Springfield; County Club and Park Club
of Pittsfield; Megantic Club.
Children by first wife:
121. i. William HanmeF®, bom 3 June, 1879.
ii. Ethel Genevra, born 17 April, 1882; married 9 February,
1905 to Winthrop Murray Crane, Jr., of Dalton, Mass.,
son of Hon. Winthrop Murray Crane, Lieutenant-
Governor and Governor of Massachusetts, and United
States Senator (from which office he resigned a year
or two before he died), who died 2 October, 1920.
Mrs. Crane has three children: Barbara, born 9 July,
1906; Winthrop Murray, 3d, born 14 July, 1910;
Arthur Eaton, born 20 March, 1914.
iii. Arthur Cornwallis, born 16 February, 1890; graduated
at Trinity College, Hartford; married 16 July, 1924,
Annette Urquhart of San Francisco, California.
loi. Stephen Woodworth^ Eaton {Leonard^, IVil
Elisha^ ^ David^, James^, Jonathan^ ^ Thomas‘S,
Johrd)^ son of Leonard^ and Elizabeth (Eaton®) Eaton,
born 28 September, 1841; married 28 December, 1871,
Adelaide M. Sanford of Cornwallis. He died 30 July,
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1918; his wife died 9 March, 1920. He was a Doctor of
Dental Surgery.
Children:
i. Angie Adelia^°, born 5 January, 1873; married to Rev.
Charles Bradford Freeman, born 26 December, 1869,
graduated B.A. at Acadia 1891, studied at McMaster
University and at Rochester Theological Seminary,
and has held many pastorates. See Dr. A. C. Chute^s
“Graduates of Acadia,” page 86. Children: Muriel
Enid; Harold Austin; Olive Evangeline; Arthur Mc-
Donald; Harold David (at present studying in France).
122. ii. Rufus Sanford, born 8 July, 1875.
123. iii. Leslie Emerson, born 19 February, 1877.
124. iv. Eugene Brayton, born 14 October, 1879.
V. Ethel Evelina, born ; married to Alfred Little. Chil-
dren: Kenneth E.; Vernon W. She died i December,
1919.
102. Everard Doe^ Eaton {Leonard^y William’^,
Elisha^, David^^ James^, Jonathan^ ^ Thomas"^, John}),
son of Leonard^ and Elizabeth (Eaton^) Eaton, born
5 March, 1844; married 24 June, 1891, May Florence
North, born 24 February, 1861. He died 7 February,
1905-
Children:
i. Evangeline May^°, born 30 June, 1892.
ii. Alba Barbara, born 4 May, 1894.
iii. Selden Everard, born 7 May, 1895; died 24 August, 1895.
iv. Clement George, born 7 June, 1896; married 4 August,
1922, Florence Hurd, born 28 February, 1903.
V. Bernard Harris, born 3 April, 1898; married 24 August,
1923, Elsie E. Anderson, born 20 April, 1904. Chil-
dren: Everard Harris, born 3 September, 1924; For-
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rest Alvin, born 20 March, 1926; Elsie Evangeline,
born 17 December, 1927.
103. Lawrence Hall® Eaton {Leonard^ ^ William^ ^
Elisha^, David^j James"^^ Jonathan^, Thomas'^ ^ Johrd)^ son
of Leonard^ and Elizabeth (Eaton^) Eaton, was born
23 March, 1846. He married 15 June, 1881, Jerusha
T. Locke, daughter of Enos Locke, of Lockeport, Nova
Scotia.
Children:
i. Jonathan Locked®, born 25 December, 1882; married F.
Harris, and has children: Hilda Harris; Selden.
ii. Jane Elizabeth, born 26 February, 1884; married 3
August, 1901, to Vernon Llewellyn Denton, B.A.
Acadia University 1903, and has four children. Resi-
dence, Victoria, B. C.
iii. Enos; married , and lives in St. Louis, Missouri.
He has two daughters.
iv. Eleanora; married to Dr. Edward Freeman, and has one
child, Mary Jane.
104. Newton Alfred® Eaton {Leonard^, William'^^
Elisha^, David^^ James^^ Jonathan^ ^ Thomas^ ^ Joh'n})^ son
of Leonard^ and Elizabeth (Eaton®) Eaton, was born
2 January, 1857, and married Augusta Bowles.
Children:
i. Perry Bowles^®, M.D., born 27 November, 1888, is a
Baptist medical missionary in India. He was grad-
uated B.A. at Acadia University 1913, and M.B.,
Ch.B. Edinburgh University 1917. He married
Renfell, and has children: Newton Renfell; Leicester
Perry; John Leonard; Ruth Mary.
ii. Marian.
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105. Foster Fitch ^ Eaton {David Rupert^, David\
Elisha^, David^^ James^^ Jonathan^ ^ Thomas^ ^ John^), son
of David Rupert^ and Joanna Augusta (Fitch) Eaton,
born at Lower Canard, 12 September, 1863; married
(i) Elizabeth Margeson of Margaretsville, Nova Scotia,
who died in 1904. He married (2) in 1910 Elsie Mary
Fraser of Stellarton, Nova Scotia. Foster Fitch Eaton,
M.D., was graduated B.A. at Acadia University in 1886,
and M.D. at the University of New York in 1889. He
practised at Parrsboro, Nova Scotia, 1889-1897, and
then took postgraduate study in London, England, in
1898. He has practised in Truro, Nova Scotia, from
1899 to the present time, is a member of the Nova Scotia
Medical Society, and the Canadian Medical Society, and
is a physician of great activity and high repute.
Children, by first wife:
i. Carl Margeson^®, born 20 June, 1891; was graduated
B. A. at Acadia University 1911, M.A. 1913; M.D.,
C. M. McGill 1920, and has been in general medical
practice ever since. He married 20 September, 1920,
Annie Clarice Wilkes of Vancouver. He lives in New
York City.
ii. Marjorie, born 27 April, 1895; married McNeily,
and lives in Montreal.
iii. Horace Mann, born 15 May, 1898; lives in Syracuse,
New York.
iv. George Outhit, born 21 June, 1901; M.D., C.M. Resi-
dence, Baltimore, Maryland.
V. Hugh Macdonald, born 12 September, 1902; D.D.S.,
D. D.C. Residence, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Child, by second wife:
vi. William Drummond, born 23 April, 1912. Residence,
Truro, Nova Scotia.
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106. Charles Henry® Eaton (Guy^, Guy\ David^^
David^, James'^^ Jonathari^^ Thomas‘S ^ Johrd)^ son of
Guy^ and Margaret Manning® Eaton (David^, Elisha®,
David®), born in Cornwallis, 18 May. 1845; married
(i) in 1866 Leah Porter, who died 5 March, 1867; (2)
I September, 1869, Laleah Frances DeWolf of Canaan,
King’s County, born 5 July, 1849, died 3 May, 1920.
Residence, New Minas, King’s County.
Child, by first wife:
i. Minnie Jane^®, born 2 March, 1867.
Children, by second wife:
ii. Beatrice Anetta, born 19 June, 1874.
iii. Fay Ethel, born 29 July, 1876; died 5 October, 1876.
iv. Gertrude Claude, born 13 December, 1877.
V. Budd Austen, born 21 January, 1880; died 24 July,
1882.
vi. Budd DeWolf, born 7 June, 1883.
vii. Leah May, born 15 October, 1886.
107. Frederick V^illiam® Eaton {Guy^, Guy’^,
David^^ David^, James^^ Jonathan^, Thomas‘S ^ Johrd)^ son
of Guy^ and Eunice Wells (Belcher) Eaton, born 16
January, 1852; married — May, 1883, Ella Maude
West, daughter of Gibb and Sarah West. He died 28
July, 1927.
On the fourth of August, 1927, the Kentville Adver-
tiser published the following obituary of Mr. Eaton:
“The death of Frederick William Eaton, a well-
known resident of the town took place Thursday eve-
ning at his home. He had been in poor health for a
number of years, but his last illness was only of a few
days’ duration. Mr. Eaton was a man well-known and
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highly esteemed. He was a son of the late Guy Eaton,
and was born at Canard, January i6, 1853, his mother
being formerly Eunice Belcher. He was a member of
the Kentville Baptist Church. He leaves a widow, for-
merly Ella West of Pereau, and four sons: Alfred, Hono-
lulu; Kenneth, Dayton, Ohio; Fenwick, Kentville, and
Ralph L., Collector of Customs, Kentville, also a half-
brother, Charles, of Highbury. His brother, Edward,
predeceased him in May at Canning. The funeral serv-
ices were held from his late residence Saturday after-
noon at two o’clock. Rev. C. W. Rose, D.D., pastor of
the Baptist Church, of which deceased was a member,
conducting the service. Interment was at Lower
Canard.”
Children:
i. LeandeF®, born ; died in infancy by drowning.
ii. Alfred Leander, born 6 July, 1885; living in Honolulu,
Hawaiian Islands.
iii. Fenwick Burpee, born 12 March, 1891. Residence, Kent-
ville, Nova Scotia.
125. iv. Ralph Leslie, born 6 May, 1893.
V. Kenneth Belcher, born i May, 1875. Residence, Day-
ton, Ohio.
108. Marshall Starr^ Eaton (George Edward^^
David'^y David^y David^y James^y Jonathan^ y Thomas^ y
Johrd)y son of George Edward^ and Nancy (Wood)
Eaton, born 20 June, 1859; married 13 December,
1882, Eliza Tobin Sawyer, daughter of William Tobin
and Olivia (Barnaby) Sawyer of Cornwallis, grand-
daughter of John James Sawyer, Esq., long Sheriff of
Halifax County, and his wife, Eliza (Tobin) of Halifax.
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Mr. Eaton died 23 October, 1917. Their residence was
Canning, Cornwallis.
Children:
i. William Arthur Purdy^°, born 8 October, 1883. He was
for some years in the United States Navy, but five
or six years ago retired and went into the radio business
in Washington, D. C. He has other business interests
of importance. His home is in Arlington, Va., but
his business office is in the Munsey Building in Wash-
ington. He married (i) Julia Louise Roche (deceased),
who bore him children: Louis Starr; William Sawyer;
Joseph Edward; Julia Louise. Fie married (2) —
August, 1928, after being a widower four years, Char-
lotte Wigham.
ii. Frederick Borden, born ii December, 1885; in October,
1907, joined the Regular Force in Canada in the Royal
Canadian Army Service Corps; in 1914 went overseas
as a Captain, and in 1917 returned as a Major, having
been mentioned in Sir Douglas Haig’s dispatches. In
the fall of 1917 he became Assistant Director of Sup-
plies and Transport at Militia Headquarters in Ottawa
and so remained until the end of the War. In Decem-
ber, 1922, he was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel,
and has served in virtually every part of Canada. In
October, 1927, from Esquimault he was ordered to
serve on the Staff at Halifax and there he is at present
(1929). He has the three war medals, 1914-1915,
Star, the Victory Medal, and the General Service
Medal. Colonel Eaton married 2 June, 1914, May
Isobelle, youngest daughter of Robert Sargent Eakins
of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, and his wife Elizabeth
(Locke), daughter of Hon. Samuel Locke of Locke-
port. Nova Scotia, and has one son, Frederick Eakins,
born 6 October, 1915.
hi. Louis Gurdon, born 12 August, 1899. (This family are
members of the Anglican Church.)
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109. Alfred Starr® Eaton {Leander^, Ward"^ and
Eunice Deborah’^ ^ John^ and Elisha^ ^ David^^ James"^^
' Jonathan^ ^ Thomas‘S, John^), son of Leander® and Pauline
(Starr) Eaton, was born in Cornwallis 20 June, 1851;
married at Sackville, New Brunswick, 7 September,
1881, Elizabeth Jane George, daughter of William F.
and Mary Adelaide (Trenholm) George, born at Sack-
ville 14 July, i860; graduated at Mt. Allison Ladies
College, 1879. Alfred Starr (a kind, gentle cousin of
mine) died in Cornwallis 6 April, 1893, and is buried
near his parents in the cemetery at Hamilton’s Corner.
His widow was married (2) 10 September, 1895 to
Alfred’s younger brother, Charles Cottnam Hamilton.
Children:
i. Pauline Starr^®, born 23 June, 1882; graduated at Mt.
Allison Ladies College in 1902; was married 25 Feb-
ruary, 1928 in Cambridge, Mass., to Samuel McCall.
ii. William George, born 9 January, 1884.
iii. Leander, born 12 December, 1885; married 29 Decem-
ber, 1909, Stella Ellis Eaton (Nathan Woodworth®,
Levi Wells^, David®, David®), born 16 December,
1887. Children: Olive Elaine, born i May, 1912;
Eleanor Ruth, born 16 March, 1917; Alfred Levi, born
25 March, 1920; Miriam Beatrice, born 30 January,
1926.
iv. Alfred Blake, born 22 October, 1890.
The continued prominence of the group of Eaton
families in Cornwallis, Nova Scotia, where our ancestor,
David Eaton, settled, is shown by the weekly news
of religious and social activities given in the news-
papers of King’s County. Many of the Eatons of this
home group belong to Baptist churches, many to the
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‘‘United Church of Canada” (formerly the separate
Presbyterian and Wesleyan Methodist bodies). Of the
Woman’s Missionary Society of Trinity United Church,
Canning, a late newspaper report gives Mrs. Leander
Eaton as First Vice-President, and Superintendent of
the Mission Band, and Mrs. Freeman Eaton Recording
Secretary. In the report of social and philanthropic
activities in Canning and neighboring places the same
newspaper that gives this mentions constantly a strik-
ingly large number of Eaton names.
no. Charles Cottnam Hamilton® Eaton {Lean-
der^, Ward"^ and Eunice Deborah'^ ^ Elisha^ and John^,
David^y James^^ Jonathan^, Thomas'^, John^)^ son of
Leander^ and Pauline (Starr) Eaton, born lo December,
1863; married 10 September, 1895, his brother Alfred
Starr Eaton’s widow, Elizabeth Jane (George) Eaton.
Mr. Eaton is perhaps the largest land owner in King’s
County.
Children:
i. Hugh Hamilton^®, born ii August, 1896; married Emma
Florence Eaton^®, born 18 August, 1896, daughter of
Albert Edward® Eaton (Henry Allen^ and has chil-
dren: Evelyn Winifred; Vernon Hugh.
ii. Kathleen Louise, born 3 October, 1898; married at
Canning, King’s County, 17 August, 1927 to Rudolph
Schafheitlin, son of Frederick Schafheitlin.
iii. Gerald Le Roy, born 23 October, 1901.
III. Arthur Wentworth Hamilton® Eaton
{William^ ^ Ward’^ and Eunice Deborah'^ ^ John^^ David^^
James‘S ^ Jonathan^^ Thomas'^, John^), son of William® and
Anna Augusta Willoughby (Hamilton) Eaton, born at
Kentville, lives in Boston and is unmarried.
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He was graduated B.A. from Harvard University in
1880, in a class which contained many unusually bril-
liant men, and shortly after graduation was admitted
to the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal Church,
being ordained Deacon by Bishop David Buel Knicker-
bocker at Indianapolis, Indiana, and Priest by Bishop
Henry Codman Potter at Christ Church, New York
City. To the Diocese of New York he has ever since
his ordination belonged, although for a short time in
his early ministry he was minister-in-charge of a newly
organized parish at Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.
After his short term of parochial service at Chestnut
Hill he returned to New York City, where for over
twenty years he led the life of an active Episcopal clergy-
man and litterateur. In the social and literary world of
New York he achieved a place of recognized distinction,
and his friendships with notable people in public and
private life were very many and singularly intimate and
strong.
Regarding Dr. Eaton’s personality and literary career
an extract from a long sketch of him which has for
some years been in print, may not inappropriately be
given here: ‘Ht is perhaps impossible in the case of
any man to decide which of the various influences that
have been potent with him have contributed most to
create his personality, the influence of heredity or of
early environment, but in Dr. Eaton’s case it is clear
that both factors are to be recognized, and strongly
recognized, in estimating his peculiar gifts of mind. His
father was a man of unflinching honesty of purpose,
inflexible in his convictions of right and wrong, Calvin-
istic in his religious philosophy, consistently Puritan in
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his estimate of the values of life, a man of absolute un-
selfishness, and of undaunted energy in carrying his
plans to completion. His mother was endowed with a
keen appreciation of beauty in all its forms, and with
a love of human companionship that was almost a
passion; and of both parents the subject of this article
is a loyal child. No one who knows him personally, or
has read his serious writings, can help seeing that be-
neath the broadly rational theological impulse that is
so apparent in his mind, lies the basis of a strong Puri-
tanism; and his poetry gives ample evidence of an ab-
sorbing human interest, as well as a sense of the beauty
of sound, color, and form that is almost oriental in its
warmth, and that at times almost possesses the man.
‘‘To the creation of Dr. Eaton’s personality came
also in large measure the influence of the unusual
charms of his native country, its crisp skies, luxuriant
fruit orchards, wide-spreading green dykes, mysterious
forests, placid lakes and singing brooks, and the pic-
turesque tide rivers that move leisurely in sinuous
beauty across the mellow marshlands towards Minas
Basin, or sweep strongly amidst rocks and islands
towards the open Atlantic on the southern shore.
“In 1873, Dr. Eaton left Nova Scotia, where in part
under his father’s personal direction, in part in the
excellent grammar schools of his native town, he had
received his preliminary education, for more advanced
study in the United States. In 1880 he graduated at
Harvard University, where he had given special atten-
tion to philosophy and flne arts. The next year he was
entered at Harvard for a Ph.D., but from pursuit of
this degree he found it necessary to withdraw.
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‘‘It is on his various publications that Dr. Eaton’s
claim to be remembered will no doubt chiefly rest.
In 1888 he published a broad church theological book
‘The Heart of the Creeds, Historical Religion in the
Light of Modern Thought,’ a volume which puts
coherently and with scholarly comprehensiveness the
rational view of God, Man, Christ, the historic Creeds,
the Bible, the Sacraments, and the Church. This was
the real beginning of Dr. Eaton’s literary career, and
the next year he followed his prose venture with a
volume of verse entitled ‘Acadian Legends and Lyrics.’
The reception accorded both these volumes by the
public was sufficiently good to establish the writer’s
reputation as an author, and from the plane of merit
which these publications reached. Dr. Eaton’s subse-
quent work has never descended. In 1891 he entered
the field of American ecclesiastical history with an inter-
esting volume, ‘The Church of England in Nova
Scotia and the Tory Clergy of the Revolution.’
“Although he wrote occasionally for publication,
compiling and editing much in the way of educational
literature, and likewise family history, to which depart-
ment of research he has for years given great and care-
ful attention, during sixteen of the next twenty years
he did not publish another volume of verse. At last,
however, in 1905 he published simultaneously, in New
York, two attractive volumes, ‘Acadian Ballads,’ and
‘Poems of the Christian Year.’ In the meantime many
of his earlier poems had passed into such notable col-
lections as Stedman’s ‘American Anthology,’ ‘The
World’s Best Poetry,’ ‘Younger American Poets,’
‘Songs of the Great Dominion,’ ‘A Treasury of Cana-
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dian Verse/ ‘Poems of Wild Life/ and ‘Canadian
Poems and Lays.’ Soon after his two later volumes of
verse appeared, a well-known reviewer in the New York
Times Saturday Review wrote: ‘The true poet, whether
he be major or minor, is always a blending of the singer
and the seer. Sometimes the seer wraps himself in the
prophet’s mantle and speaks in a tongue not fully
under standed of the people^ and sometimes the singer
is so mastered by his metres that he seemingly takes
no heed to the meaning of his song. But when the
seer has shown that he can sing as well as prophesy
and when the singer has once been sitting among the
prophets, the world is sure to turn a listening ear. Mr.
Arthur Eaton is no new claimant for attention, for it
is quite a score of years since his voice was first heard,
but the simultaneous publication of two volumes of his
gives warrant for some consideration in this place of
the qualities of his verse. . . .
“ ‘The two books before us appeal to very different
though not necessarily opposite classes of readers. To
those who have known Mr. Eaton only as the chosen
laureate of Nova Scotia, the ‘Poems of the Christian
Year’ (Thomas Whittaker) may come with a slight
sense of surprise, but Mr. Eaton, who is a loyal Acadian
to the heart’s core, is also a Churchman, and therefore
loyal as well to the Anglican establishment at whose
altars he ministers. Characteristic of both the ‘Poems
of the Christian Year’ and of the ‘Acadian Ballads’
(Whittaker) are their simplicity and sincerity. In such
poems as ‘I Know a Vast Cathedral,’ ‘O Spirit from
the Eternal Deep,’ ‘O Love Divine,’ and ‘He Under-
stands,’ there is discoverable the same unstudied direct-
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ness of utterance that one finds in the best hymns of
Montgomery or Keble, while their sincerity is evidenced
by the immediate response they win from the reader’s
heart. Such poems as these cannot help becoming en-
deared to many souls, cannot help bringing a message
of comfort to tired mortals. A hard nature it would be
whom the poem ‘He Understands’ did not deeply
move, and the beautiful Whitsuntide poem, ‘O Spirit
from the Eternal Deep,’ seems to us to reach a very
high level of devotional verse. . . .
“ ‘The standard of excellence set by the first of these
two volumes is well maintained in the second, though
the themes in this instance are secular, and no doubt
from the intensity of local color the ‘Acadian Ballads’
will secure a wider audience. ... As has been already
said, the ‘Acadian Ballads’ will probably win greater
popularity than its companion, at least among the
poet’s countrymen; but the ‘Poems of the Christian
Year” not only attain to greater technical excellence
as a whole, but are to be classed among the best of
recent religious verse.’ ”
“Dr. Eaton’s ‘Acadian Ballads’ contains poems of
both the French and English periods in Acadia. Of the
former, we have ‘The Naming of the Gaspereau,’ ‘L’lle
Sainte Croix,’ ‘Poutrincourt’s Return to Port Royal,’
‘Madame La Tour,’ ‘La Tour and Biencourt,’ and ‘The
Phantom Light of the Baie des Chaleurs.’ Of the latter,
we have ‘Puritan Planters,’ ‘The Arrival of Howe’s
Fleet,’ ‘A Ballad of the Tories,’ ‘Lady Wentworth,’
‘Old Wharves,’ ‘St. Paul’s Church, Halifax,’ and several
highly colored poems of personal reminiscence of Nova
Scotia, like ‘Atlantic Mists,’ ‘The Lady of the Flowers,’
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‘Death in Acadia,’ and ‘A Saint.’ In 1907 Dr. Eaton
published his best volume of general verse, ‘The Lotus
of the Nile and Other Poems.’
“For some years past Dr. Eaton has been writing in
Boston, whither he moved from New York about 1907.
In this time he has published a large book, ‘The His-
tory of King’s County, Nova Scotia, Heart of the Aca-
dian Land,’ and has been producing in various historical
publications laborious studies on the two chief migra-
tions from New England to Nova Scotia, that of 1760
and 1761 and the so-called Tory migration from 1775
to 1783. In 1914 he published in Boston a striking
biography of the noted Tory preacher, poet and wit,
the ‘Famous Mather Byles.’
“In 1904 he received from Dalhousie University,
Halifax, Nova Scotia, the Degree of Master of Arts,
and in 1905 from King’s College, Windsor, the Degree
of Doctor of Civil Law. In 1913 he was elected a Fellow
of the Royal Society of Canada, but this fellowship he
has since resigned.
“In pursuance of his studies into the settlement of
Nova Scotia from colonies now the United States, Dr.
Eaton has published besides his history of King’s
County, a monograph on the settlement of Colchester
County, 1912, three monographs on the settlement of
Hants County, 1915, and a series on the City of Hali-
fax, with special reference to the migration of the Boston
Tories to that town in 1776. Of educational works, he
has published ‘Letter-Writing, its Ethics and Eti-
quette,’ 1890; ‘College Requirements in English,’ 1900;
and an edition of Pope’s ‘Rape of the Lock,’ 1901. In
1901 also he published, with an introduction, and care-
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fully edited, a Loyalist manuscript by Mrs. Elizabeth
Lichtenstein Johnston, the volume when it appeared
being entitled ‘Recollections of a Georgia Loyalist.’ In
the Canadian Magazine for August, 1907, appeared a
somewhat lengthy account of Dr. Eaton, his life and
his writings, by a New York writer. Rev. James B.
Wasson, D.D.”
The appeal made by Dr. Eaton’s writings is shown
by notices they have received from the press, some of
which we append here.
Of “The Heart of the Creeds: Historical Religion in
the Light of Modern Thought,” the following notices
have appeared:
The book that bears the above title comes from the pen of a
minister of the American Episcopal Church, who is evidently a
man of very liberal mind and generous sentiments. He certainly
possesses the power of condensing and expressing in a clear and
interesting manner the conclusions to which those have come whom
he regards as the truest and ablest leaders and teachers of Chris-
tia nity. The nine subjects that are thus considered and presented
are the following: God, Man, Christ, the Creeds, the Bible, the
Church, the Sacraments, the Liturgy, and the Future Life. The
book is a brief and undogmatic one, which cannot fail to prove
thoroughly helpful to a very large number of earnest enquirers after
the reasons for the facts and truths that are “most surely believed
among us,” or that are at least held in respect and veneration by
members of the Anglican Church. We welcome the book with
unfeigned satisfaction as a fair, intelligent, Christian view of the
subjects it deals with. — London Literary World.
Mr. Eaton’s volume is a sign of the times, and there are many
like unto it. That it is not unique is shown by the succession of
anthologies which precede the several chapters. They greatly
enhance the value of the book; they indicate the sources of the
writer’s inspiration, and, while they include many sentences and
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passages from Unitarian writers, so many others are from con-
temporary writers in at least nominal fellowship with Evangelical
Churches, that Mr. Eaton is seen to be one of many — the expo-
nent of theological tendencies which are very deep and wide, and
which derive their volume and momentum in part from tributary
streams as far apart as Schleiermacher and Matthew Arnold. —
The Natioii.
Mr. Eaton has developed in spirit the precise opposite of the
odium theologicum; his pages steadily repeat Mr. Arnold’s “sweet
reasonableness”; and the literary finish of his chapters must be
ranked as a virtue. — The Boston Literary World.
The author belongs to the mystical school — using the term
simply to designate that mode of thought which lays stress upon
the subjective experience, the intuitive belief and aspiration, the
direct perception of truth and goodness. We cannot doubt that
his insight and genuine catholicity will attract many of those
whom he desires to reach, and be a powerful antidote to the non-
Christian spirit which prevails in some quarters. — The Critic.
It is a pleasure to take a book like this into the hands; it is a
pleasure for the eye to rest upon it. There is a depth of thorough-
ness pervading the whole, and there is a lucidity and gracefulness
of style which makes the task of perusal light and pleasant. — The
Toronto Week.
Arthur Wentworth Eaton’s “Heart of the Creeds: Historical
Religion in the Light of Modern Thought” is a strong and noble
essay in way of this new revival. Surely through the shadow of
the globe we sweep into a younger day. The East is till now the
region of divine sunrise, and the “heart of the creeds” still throbs
with the infinite life of God. — The Christian Union.
In style the book is suggestive and winning, not to say capti-
vating. It deals gently with scepticism and hopes to win it to faith
by gentleness and the persuasiveness of positive truth. — The Inde-
pendent.
That in most things spiritually and in many things intellectually
he has gone to “the heart of the creeds” cannot be doubted. As
representing a phase of contemporaneous religious thought, and a
considerable school of thinkers in our own Church, it is certainly
well worth perusal. — The Churchman.
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We have read “The Heart of the Creeds” with unusual interest.
Any man who so evidently has something to say about religion,
and who has taken pains to say it so clearly and strongly, and in
so earnest and reverent a spirit, has a right to attention. It will
afford religious thinkers of all shades of opinion both stimulus
and intellectual pleasure. — Boston Congregationalist.
It is delightful to find a book in which the spirit is always made
superior to form, and in which truth is presented in its permanent
rather than in its transient or accidental elements. The author
has not only thought on these themes, but he has felt their spiritual
power. His book will add another to the number which Broad
Churchmen have contributed to the defense and development of
a purer form of Christianity. — The Christian Register.
It is full of the spirit of truth, which must be the spirit of
strength and comfort to many bewildered and earnest people. —
Rev. Phillips Brooks, D.D.
It is very clear, and it is very interesting — two qualities that
ought to make it a success. It also fills a niche of its own. Just
the book for a large class of intelligent people in New England and
elsewhere who need to be shown from another and higher point
of view how true and how rational the old faith really is. — Rev.
Alexander V. G. Allen, D.D.
It is admirable, and has my thorough assent and sympathy. I
wish it may get into wide circulation. — Rev. Charles H. Hall,
D.D., Rector of Holy Trinity Church, Brooklyn, N. Y.
“The Heart of the Creeds” is a piece of really good work: the
most lucid, most honest, and most helpful book I know to put into
the hands of thoughtful men and women as a help to the main-
tenance of a reasonable Christian faith. — Rev. J. H. Rylance,
D.D., Rector of St. Mark’s Church, New York.
It is a charming piece of work and shows on every page signs
of ripe wisdom. It seems to me eminently judicious in its state-
ments and discerning in its distinctions, and penetrative in its
grasp of the very heart, indeed, of the creeds. And withal it is
written in a singularly pure and attractive style. — Rev. R. H.
Newton, D.D.
The book was in my hands upon an ocean voyage last summer,
and I found much light in it. — Washington Gladden.
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Its perfectly logical survey, its clear and charming style, and
its liberal conception of religious creeds “in the light of modern
thought” are most attractive to a layman. The concluding
chapter on “The Future Life” is the best statement for thinkers
which I have seen. — Edmund Clarence Stedman.
It is a brave book, full of noble courage and calm good sense,
and it puts the doctrines of the Church so clearly, so simply, and
so reasonably that it cannot fail to remove many a stumbling-
block from the path of the sincere seeker after truth. — Mrs.
Louise Chandler Moulton (in the Boston Sunday Herald).
The purpose of the author of this book is to present in as clear
and concise a way as possible the rational theology of the early
church and of the best thinkers of our own time, and to set forth
“the undisputed religious principles which make the basis of the
creeds and institutions of historical Christianity.” It makes clear
the universal meaning in the rites and symbols of a church, and
discriminates between what is necessary and what is accidental in
religion. It is a book which will be read with pleasure and profit.
— The Christian at Work.
The author thinks that there is a rational way of treating the
great subjects of theology — God, Man, Christ, the Creeds, the
Bible, the Church, etc. He believes the Episcopal form of govern-
ment is best, and that the Episcopal Church forms a nucleus around
which all may gather. It is a sincere and devout attempt to recon-
cile Christians and educated people. — The Christian Advocate.
It is a thoughtful, earnest plea for the broad, spiritual interpre-
tation of Christianity, and of man’s relation to the Infinite, which
is found in the teachings of men like Robertson, Dean Stanley,
Emerson, Canon Farrar and Matthew Arnold. It is above all a
protest against the theology which still tells of rewards with harp
and crown, punishments with everlasting fire, and of the joys of
the righteous enhanced by witnessing the torments of the wicked.
— Detroit Free Press.
With something of the penetration and clearness of Renan, with
a measure of the devout faith of Keble, Mr. Arthur Wentworth
Eaton, in “The Heart of the Creeds,” pleads powerfully that God
is a Spirit. . . . He draws wonderful oracles of love and hope and
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clear joy from the pages where so many have seen but the gloom
of the storm cloud, the terror of the lightning. — New York Com-
mercial.
“The Heart of the Creeds” contains a statement from a liberal
Episcopalian point of view of catholic Christianity. The author
undertakes to show what it is that underlies all the confessions of
faith and makes the real worth of them all, and what it is in each
of them, or in most of them, which is non-essential and divisive.
— Boston Daily Advertiser.
The Rev. Arthur Wentworth Eaton of Boston has written a
religious book of uncommon usefulness in “The Heart of the
Creeds.” The general result of the investigation is gain of purer
and clearer definitions to the teacher of religion, and closer union
in belief and conduct among inquirers. — Boston Daily Globe.
Of ‘‘Acadian Legends and Lyrics” the critics said:
Mr. Eaton has already achieved an enviable place among
the thinkers of the day by his book entitled “The Heart of the
Creeds”; and his verses, that have appeared with considerable fre-
quency in the current literature of the day, have already given
him an honorable place among our younger poets. The present
volume will serve to bring him yet more before the attention of
cultured readers. — Boston Commonwealth.
Mr. Eaton’s “Acadian Legends” are characterized by melody,
pathos, a strong feeling for nature, and refined taste. The spirit
of Evangeline’s country has been absorbed by the poet, who cele-
brates the Gaspereau and all the region round about with a tender
melancholy fitted to the scene and its associations. He has caught
the old world atmosphere which surrounds and mellows that beau-
tiful land, and has given to his verse a softness and repose which
are in perfect keeping with the subject. — New York Tribune.
His sense of rhythm is delicate, his mastery over meter is sur-
prising, and his method of thought essentially synthetic; that is
to say, poetical. The “Acadian Legends,” with which the volume
opens, are picturesque and melodious essays in verse, such as charm
the fancy and the senses, and through them sounds a minor chord
with tender modulations — the pathetic history of Acadia. . . .
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In his individual criticism of life his special significance lies. We
hope that we may not seem anxious for a pretentious phrase when
we term this poetry the cry of the heart of the age. . . . With all
its fierce struggle, disease, and damning sins, we do not believe
that the heart of the age is pessimistic. On the edge of the gloom
is the glimmer of a dawn. This Mr. Eaton discerns, and utters
our modern life’s varied emotions; and It seems to us that his
utterance is as true In its own way as the message of Browning or
Tennyson, though his lyre sound not so loud, and that he brings
“nobler strains through our fond, fragile creeds.” — New York
Christian Union.
“Acadian Legends and Lyrics” Is to me one of the most charm-
ing of this year’s publications. I think Mr. Eaton has one of the
fairest promises, among the younger American poets. He seems
to me to have more of the quality of Longfellow about him than
any of them. In the graceful treatment of a local legend, in musi-
cal ballad that flows like a clear river through the water-meadows,
in a good taste at once cultivated and popular, in a happy, dig-
nified choice of simple words, Mr. Eaton seems to me one of the
most successful of the school who have listened for Inspiration to
“The Voices of the Night.” “L’Ordre de Bon Temps” and “The
Legend of Glooscap” are capital models for Ballads of Places.
“Flood Tide” has something of the pathos of Kingsley’s “Three
Fishers” without being in the least indebted to It. . . . “Sometime”
is an exquisite lyric worthy of comparison with Stedman’s
Undiscovered Country.” — Prof. Douglas Sladen in Quebec
Chronicle.
A volume got up in the style of Kegan Paul’s best, and published
in New York and London by White & Allen. There is delightful
melody in the last stanzas of “L’lle Ste. Croix.” “L’Ordre de Bon
Temps,” also, celebrating those jovial ceremonies of good fellow-
ship which Champlain instituted among his companions In old
Port Royal and Quebec, is a charming ballad; and “De Soto’s
Last Dream” has attracted admiration widely. His sketching
power Is illustrated In the deserted “Whaling Town,” and “The
Old New England Meeting-House.” — Toronto Week.
There Is something in these Acadian lyrics that gives them choice
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flavor, something fresh and racy of a new soil. . . . There is a smack
of romance and a good deal of the picturesque in the subjects and
their treatment, showing that the author is an artist, at least in
knowing what is novel and picturable. The Acadian bouquet is
somehow set in these pages, and he must have a very dull sense
who fails to catch a decided waft of it as he turns the leaves. —
Nezu York Independent.
Mr. Eaton is almost the only one of our younger American
poets who has felt the charm of romance in the traditions of the
early French settlement of this continent, which Francis Parkman
has so keenly felt, and which lends his books much of their delight-
ful atmosphere. . . . Some of these poems are already included in
anthologies like ‘‘Poems of Wild Life” and “Songs of the Great
Dominion.” . . . The lyrics and sonnets, which form a consider-
able part of this attractive collection, are full of melody and have
a fine meaning and purpose. . . . Some of the lyrics remind one
much of Kingsley. — Boston Transcript.
Fresh interest in Acadian history will be awakened by Mr.
Eaton’s volume of poems. It is an interesting and fruitful field
into which Mr. Eaton alone of our younger poets has entered,
and as a contribution to some little remembered chapters of his-
tory his work will be felt to have value. . . .
Mr. Eaton’s volume, a beautiful specimen of book making, com-
prises, besides the Acadian legends, a great variety of lyrics, some
showing fine descriptive power, some deep feeling and delicate
grace of expression. — Boston Daily Advertiser.
The influence of Longfellow is suggested in Mr. Arthur Went-
worth Eaton’s “x\cadian Legends and Lyrics,” though it is not,
as might be surmised, discernible in his ballads of the early French
settlements in America. We are reminded of the author of Evan-
geline by poems that celebrate nothing Acadian, by the pretty
stanzas “The Angel Sleep,” for instance. . . .
In “Foundry Fires” again, we feel that Longfellow has a dis-
ciple in Mr. Eaton, when, after a striking description of a forge
in full blast, he calls upon the “forgemen of the nations” to keep
the world’s great fires alight “till stars fade,” and faith and knowl-
edge widen, etc. — London Saturday Review.
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The “Acadian Legends” will at once remind the reader of Long-
fellow, but it is easy to see that the resemblances are not the
result of a servile spirit of imitation, but are due rather to a con-
geniality of mind and temperament — the same reflective spirit,
the same tender love of the past and openness to the future, a like
sympathy with the common joys and sorrows of life, and as a con-
sequence, a rhythmic flow and sweetness in the productions of the
later poet such as distinguish the verse of the elder bard. — New
York Home Journal.
Mr. Arthur Wentworth Eaton’s “Acadian Legends and Lyrics”
is a happy indication that the rising generation of poets will not
be composed entirely of dictionary grubbers and despisers of syn-
tax and prosody, but will include some men not too original to
speak the decent English of their fathers, not so soaring in their
ambition as to find all laws binding fetters. He has something to
say, and he has what is almost as desirable in a time of literary
affectation, the faculty of self-criticism, and he refrains from assum-
ing any one of the countless fantastic guises by which he might
make himself conspicuous. The result is a volume of verse full of
promise. — Boston Herald.
Mr. Eaton’s book is of interest to all lovers of song, because it
serves as an indication of a return to simplicity. There is much
easy melody, much tenderness of mood, much faithful and effec-
tive description. In the “Acadian Legends” Mr. Eaton may be
said to revive that pleasant art that has long been in disuse, the
art of telling a not very striking story in verse, and adding an
evasive grace which persuades one that the tale was worth telling.
The “Lyrics” are human and wholesome, almost without excep-
tion, and improve on close acquaintance. — Prof. C. G. D.
Roberts, in St. John Progress.
A collection of verse of true poetic quality. Of the legends,
“Marguerite and the Isle of Demons” will especially enchant the
reader in the pathos of the tale and the romantic expression. “The
Legend of Glooscap” is another of exceptional power. The two
sonnets, “A Dream of Christ” and “If Christ Were Here,” and
the sonnet on “Elisha Mulford,” are particularly fine and beauti-
ful in spiritual fervor and insight. — Boston Traveller.
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His manner is sober, unpretentious, and often of excellent lyric
tone. . . . Among the lyrics, “Charles River” is a finely poetic
contemplation of “the dark-arched bridge . . . , the lighted shore,
the sky, the current free,” in which the singer sees reflections of
life, human and divine. Other verses which are especially attrac-
tive are the sympathetic “I Watch the Ships”; “Foundry Fires,”
with its ringing note of manly optimism; the homely and warm-
hearted memory, “At Grandmother’s”; the tenderly imagined
“Angel Sleep”; and such sincere lyrics as “Sometime” and “After
Separation.” Perhaps the most characteristic expression of Mr.
Eaton’s mind is to be found in the powerful and liberal protests,
excellently versified, against the complaining and denying spirit of
the age. — Boston Literary World.
Many of the lyrics bear the same unmistakable mark of election,
the same thoughtfulness, the same “obstinate questionings,” the
same conviction that, though any “cheap philosophy” of com-
placent optimism will satisfy no earnest truth-seeker, still “the
true God is not dead,” and it is still permissible to “hope for the
best and pray and pray.” There are many of these lyrics that we
would gladly quote for their thought, their sentiment, and their
music. — Dominion Illustrated.
A volume of poems and ballads actually worth reading, which
is encomium enough in these days. . . . Some of them contain
gems worth keeping in the mind for a lifetime. — New York Journal
of Commerce.
Those who are acquainted with this author’s “Heart of the
Creeds,” know well that anything from his pen cannot be ordinary.
— Baltimore American.
There is smoothness, sweetness, and artistic simplicity in the
“ Acadian Legends and Lyrics” of Arthur Wentworth Eaton. They
are thoughtful, meditative and scholarly. — Baltimore Sun.
Those who have read the “Heart of the Creeds” by the same
author, will find here the same charming English and even greater
depths of thought and feeling. — The Woman^s Chronicle.
They have given me great pleasure. I like “The Poet Passed
My Way,” and nothing better than “The Old Meeting-House”
and “At Grandmother’s.” — Frederic Locker.
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I have read many of them with much pleasure, especially those
on Harvard and Dalzell. — Andrew Lang.
In his career as a clergyman Dr. Eaton has always
been active in the duties of his Church, to which he is
ardently devoted, and in ministering to the needy and
sick in the communities at large where he has lived.
His home since he left New York for Boston has been
on ‘‘Beacon Hill,” where first and last so many of New
England’s writers have lived.
112. Frank Herbert^ Eaton (William^ ^ Ward\
John^ and Eunice Deborah'^ ^ Elisha^ ^ David^, James^,
Jonathan^, Thomas'^, John^), son of William^ and Anna
Augusta Willoughby (Hamilton) Eaton, was born at
Kentville, and died, unmarried, at Victoria, British
Columbia, ii January, 1908. He was graduated, B.A.,
at Acadia University in 1873, M.A. in 1876, and at
Harvard University in 1875. In 1905, Acadia gave him
the degree of D.C.L. He was a noble fellow and a fine
educationist. On the occasion of his death in Victoria,
the Secretary of his class at Harvard sent to all his
classmates the following notice:
Frank Herbert Eaton
“Frank Herbert Eaton, M.A., D.C.L., died January
II, 1908, in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Dr.
Eaton was born at Kentville, Nova Scotia, his father
being the late William Eaton, Esq., and his mother
Anna Augusta Willoughby (Hamilton) Eaton, and was
prepared for college at the grammar schools of his native
town and at Horton Academy at Wolfville, Nova Scotia.
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Seven miles from his birthplace was Acadia College,
now the University of Acadia College, and there in 1873
Dr. Eaton received his first bachelor’s degree.
“Until November, 1873, he was principal of the Acad-
emy in Shelburne, Nova Scotia, when he joined the
class of 1876 at Harvard and shortly afterwards our
class. In 1876 Acadia University conferred on him the
degree of M.A. From 1875 to 1877 he taught Greek
and natural science in Horton Academy, but in August,
1877, he returned to Harvard University for a special
course of study in the Post-Graduate Department.
The next year he was appointed to the principalship of
Amherst Academy in Nova Scotia, and in November,
1879, was elected to a professorship of mathematics and
physics in the Provincial Normal School at Truro. The
latter position he filled with distinction until 1890, when
he resigned and went to Europe for a second time to
make a special study of the educational systems of
Great Britain and Germany. His first visit for the same
purpose had been made eight years earlier. In 1891-92
he held temporary appointments as mathematical in-
structor in the Boston Latin School and the Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology, six months in each.
From January, 1893, he owned, edited and published
two weekly papers in Kentville, Nova Scotia, the Adver-
tiser and the Acadian Orchardist^ and concurrently, from
April, 1893, was municipal clerk and treasurer of that
town, and commissioner of the Supreme and County
Courts of King’s County under appointment of the
government of Nova Scotia. In 1890 he was appointed
to a professorship of mathematics in Acadia University,
but declined the appointment. For some time after
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this, however, he remained, as he had long been, a
governor of the college.
‘‘In his long educational career in Nova Scotia Dr.
Eaton made himself a recognized power. There was no
general movement in public education in which he was
not importantly concerned. At the inception of a now
extinct ‘paper university’ known as ‘Halifax Uni-
versity,’ he was appointed examiner in physics and
mathematics, and twice he held the office of president
of the Nova Scotia Summer School of Science, an insti-
tution he had helped organize. During his connection
with educational work in Nova Scotia he contributed
greatly by his public addresses, his published articles,
and his work on important committees, towards the
achievement of the present excellence of the school
system of that province.
“In August, 1897, Dr. Eaton was called to the super-
intendency of the schools of Victoria, British Columbia,
a post then newly created, and in the years that have
elapsed since, in spite of uncertain health, he has done
a work that is universally conceded to be one of unusual
thoroughness and power. In education he was a man
of wide vision, and his keen intelligence, firm grasp of
educational forces, and great organizing ability have
easily given him a place among the ablest educators in
the Dominion of Canada. To his influence, recent valu-
able legislation in education in the province of British
Columbia is in no little measure due. In recognition of
his unusual services to education on both the Atlantic
and the Pacific coasts of the Dominion, the University
of Acadia in 1905 conferred on him the highest honor in
its gift — a Doctorate of Civil Law. Among Dr. Eaton’s
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published writings are a textbook on Practical Mathe-
matics for the use of high schools in Nova Scotia, pub-
lished in 1883, Reports of the Victoria Schools, an
article in the Popular Science Monthly on the ‘Bay of
Fundy Tides and Marshes,’ and many editorial articles,
always in clear, scholarly, vigorous English.
“Dr. Eaton’s funeral was held in the Anglican Cathe-
dral in Victoria, January 12, 1908, the burial taking
place in the Victoria Cemetery, in a spot overlooking
the beautiful blue water of Juan de Fuca Straits.”
This notice, which is very complete as to my brother’s
public service, leaves untouched the beauty of his char-
acter and the devoted affection in which he was held
by all who ever knew him. He died too soon to have
attained the fullness of his power or the complete prom-
ise of his early life. He was unmarried.
113. Rufus William^ Eaton {William^, Ward'^ and
Eunice Deborah’^ ^ John^, David^^ James^^ Jonathan^,
Thomas^^ John^), son of William and Anna Augusta
Willoughby (Hamilton) Eaton, born at Kentville,
23 August, 1856; and married at St. James Church,
Kentville, by the Rev. John Owen Ruggles, Rector,
II September, 1888, Annie Laurie Sutherland, only
child of Kenneth Ronaldson and Nancy Jean (Tays)
Sutherland, born 8 June, 1863. See in libraries a mono-
graph of mine entitled, “Eaton and Sutherland; Layton
and Flill.” Rufus William Eaton matriculated at Acadia
University and went through the Freshman year, but
left college and entered on a business career. He was
in business in Kentville for many years, but finally
went to British Columbia, where he was connected with
a well-known wholesale business house. He died in
Vancouver, much beloved, 13 October, 1923.
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Children:
i. Kenneth Sutherland^®, born 30 April, 1890; baptized in
St. James Parish, Kentville, 14 July, 1890; served in
the World War as a Lieutenant in the Canadian Field
Artillery. He married at St. George^s Church, Van-
couver, B. C., 19 August, 1920, Suzane Jeanne Emilie
Jacquel, of Paris, France, and has one child, a daugh-
ter. He lives in France.
ii. William Ronald, born at Kentville, 27 September, 1891;
baptized 2 December, 1891. He first entered a bank-
ing house in his native town of Kentville, then in
November, 1909, came to a banking house in Boston.
In 1911 he was transferred by this bank to Chicago,
and until 1917 remained in its service. In October,
1917, he joined the United States Army, enlisting in
the 86th American Division and with this contingent
went to France in the summer of 1918. On his return
from France in February, 1919, he was sent to the
Pacific Coast by A. G. Becker & Co., Investment
Bankers of Chicago, to open four offices, and he re-
mained in charge of these until May, 1925, when he
returned to his firm’s head office in Chicago to repre-
sent them in the bond department of their business
there. He is unmarried.
hi. Jean Hamilton, born 20 May, 1894; baptized 31 July,
1894. She lives in Vancouver with her mother at
1264 Eleventh Avenue, West.
114. Harry Havelock® Eaton {William^y Ward’^
and Eunice Deborah'^ ^ John^^ David^^ James^, Jonathan^,
Thomas^^ John^)^ son of William and Anna Augusta
Willoughby (Hamilton) Eaton, born 23 January, 1858,
was fitted for college at Horton Academy, 1874-1876,
and was matriculated at Acadia University in 1876.
He completed the Freshman year, but then dropped
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out and for several years taught in public schools in
Nova Scotia and the United States. In 1880 he studied
at the Normal College at Truro, Nova Scotia, but in
1881 became a student of law at Sycamore, Illinois.
Admitted to the Illinois Bar in 1885, he practised in
that state for some years, when he removed to the
State of Washington. In Washington he practised for a
good many years, but he finally removed to San Fran-
cisco, where he still remains in active practice. He is
recognized as an able title lawyer. He is unmarried.
115. Leslie Seymour^ Eaton {William^, Ward\
John^ and Eunice Deborah'^ ^ Elisha^ ^ David^, James^^
Jonathan^ ^ Thomas‘S, John^), youngest son of William^
and Anna Augusta Willoughby (Hamilton) Eaton, born
at Kentville, 17 May, 1865; married in St. James Angli-
can Parish, Kentville, 16 June, 1887, Augusta Billing
Thorne, born 26 January, 1866, third daughter of James
Hall and Mary (Piper) Thorne of Halifax and Kent-
ville, of a New York Loyalist family. Their residence
for some years after their marriage was “Elmwood,”
Kentville, Nova Scotia; it is now Vancouver, British
Columbia. In 1915-1917 Mr. Eaton served abroad in
the Great War.
Children:
i. Emily Augusta Thorne^°, born 7 March, 1889; baptized
2 May, 1889, was married 4 November, 1916 at St.
Paul’s Church, Esquimault, B. C., the Royal Naval
Garrison Church, to Roland Fieldhouse, son of James
and Alice (Lockley) Fieldhouse, born at Wolver-
hampton, England, 6 July, 1894. She died, s.p.^ at
Vancouver, B. C., 26 December, 1918.
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ii. Helen Wentworth Hamilton, born 21 April, 1891; bap-
tized in St. James Parish, Kentville, 20 July, 1891;
was married at St. John’s Anglican Church, North
Vancouver, B. C., 16 June, 1914, to Harold Jeffery,
youngest son of George and Phillipa Jane (Philby)
Jeffery, of Tring, Hertfordshire, England and has two
children: Harold Wentworth Thorne Jeffery, born 26
April, 1915, baptized 27 February, 1916; Margaret
Hamilton Philby Jeffery, born 19 February, 1924,
baptized at St. Saviour’s Church, Vancouver, 19 Octo-
ber, 1924.
1 16. Walter Ernest^ Eaton {James Stanley^ ,
Ward'^, John^ and Eunice Deborah"^ ^ Elisha^ ^ David^,
James^^ Jonathan^, Thomas’^, John^)^ son of James
Stanley® and Janet (Nicholson) Eaton, born at Canard,
28 May, 1868; married 5 November, 1891, Julia Maria
Burbidge, daughter of Arnold Shaw and Rebecca
(Borden) Burbidge, born at Canard, 31 March, 1867.
Children:
i. Elizabeth Burbidge^®, graduated B.A. at Acadia Uni-
versity, 1914, M.A. (in Physics), 1919. She took train-
ing at the Normal College in Nova Scotia, and courses
at the Teachers’ College, Columbia University; has
taught mathematics at Rupert’s Land, Ladies’ College,
Winnipeg (1917-1919); mathematics and science at
Mrs. Randall-Maciver’s School, New York City
(1920-1922); and college preparatory work in biology
and physics at Miss Chandor’s School in New York
City (1922 to the present).
126. ii. Ernest Lowden, born 8 August, 1896.
117. John Nicholson® Eaton {James Stanley^,
Ward"^, John^ and Elisha^^ David^, James^, Jo7iathan^^
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Thomas^^^ John^), son of James Stanley and Janet (Nich-
olson) Eaton, was born at Canard, lo September, 1874.
He married 17 June, 1903, Abby Louise Allen, daughter
of Walter and Grace (Weston) Allen, of Newton, Massa-
chusetts, who graduated at Smith College in 1899.
The father of Mrs. Eaton was an author and journal-
ist, editor of the Boston Advertiser^ and for many years
an editorial writer for the Boston Herald. One of her
brothers is the Hon. J. Weston Allen, LL.D., a promi-
nent lawyer of Boston and for some years Attorney-
General of Massachusetts. Another brother is Capt.
Walter H. Allen of the United States Navy.
John Nicholson Eaton came to Boston at the age of
nineteen, and served a clerkship in the banking house
of Stedman, Steere, & Wheeler. After six years training
in this office he became a salesman for the firm, travel-
ing through New England. In 1901 he became Boston
representative of Messrs. E. Naumburg & Company, a
prominent New York banking house, in which position
he remained until 1914, when he became manager of
the Industrial Trust Company of Providence. In 1918
he became associated with the Merchants National
Bank of Boston, one of the oldest and most important
Boston banks, of which he is now vice-president, in
charge of credits and commercial loans. In banking
circles throughout the United States he is widely known
and his judgment on credit problems is highly regarded.
He has been active in various banking and business
organizations, and his addresses and written articles on
credit and accounting subjects have been published
from time to time in leading banking journals. He is
an enthusiast over outdoor recreations and has been
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particularly active in developing interest in winter
sports.
Children:
i. Janet Nicholson^®, graduated at Smith College {magna
cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa) in 1926; was married
2 October, 1926 to Charles Clark Macomber of New-
ton, graduated B.A. at Harvard in 1922, and has two
children.
ii. Alice Allen, in 1928 in her senior year at Smith College.
iii. Barbara, student in 1928 at the Winsor School.
CHAPTER VIII
TENTH GENERATION
ii8. Cyrus Stephen^® Eaton, eminent banker and
philanthropist {Joseph Howe^^ Stephe7i^, Arnos'^ ^ Stephen^,
David^, James^^ Jonathan^ ^ Thomas'^ ^ John})^ son of
Joseph Howe^ and Mary Adelia (MacPherson) Eaton,
born at Pugwash, Nova Scotia, 17 December, 1883;
came to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1900, but took a college
course in Canada and was graduated B.A. at McMaster
University, Toronto, in 1905. After graduation, settling
in Cleveland, he became a member of the powerful bank-
ing firm of Otis & Company, with offices at Cleveland,
New York, and Chicago, and since then his influence
in the financial world has so steadily grown that he is
acknowledged to be one of the notable financiers of the
United States, with a future of unlimited possibilities
before him, since he is yet only in early middle life.
At present Mr. Eaton is chairman or director of the
following corporations: United Light and Power, Con-
tinental Gas and Electric, American Light and Trac-
tion, Columbus Railway Power and Light, Kansas City
Power and Light, Cleveland Trust Company, Republic
Iron and Steel, Inland Steel, Central Alloy Steel, Ohio
Brass Company, Sherwin Williams Company, Lehigh
Coal and Navigation Company, National Refining
Company, Bowman-Biltmore Hotels Corporation. He
is also a trustee of Denison University, Ohio, of the
Cleveland Museum of National History, and the Cleve-
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i8i
land Young Men’s Christian Association. His resi-
dences are 8917 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, and ‘‘Aca-
dia Farm,” Northfield, Ohio. For the summer season
of 1928 he rented for his family “Mount Browne,” an
estate near Guildford, Surrey, England, formerly a
residence of the Marchioness of Sligo, but his loyalty to
his native Province of Nova Scotia is so great and his
sensitiveness to her charms so keen that he more fre-
quently goes to her beautiful lakes and rivers and quiet
landscape for recreation than to the old world. An en-
thusiastic fisherman, he flees every spring from the
distractions of the business world to Nova Scotia for
salmon fishing, and in Ohio he has organized a select
Hunt Club of which he is the controlling power. His
clubs are: Union, Mid Day, University, Mayfield,
Pepper Pike, Chagrin Valley Hunt and Summit Hunt,
and Glenelg in Nova Scotia.
Cyrus Eaton’s philanthropies are of a magnificent
kind. The newspapers lately announced that he had
offered to remodel and beautify the Nova Scotia town
of his birth so as to make it more attractive to tourists,
as well as more agreeable to its permanent residents.
To do this he was willing to spend a princely sum, and
I understand that the work of reconstruction is already
well begun. At the closing exercises of Acadia Uni-
versity in June, 1928, Mr. Eaton was a conspicuous and
honored guest. His benefactions to this University at
different times made him a notable person in the group
of distinguished men on the platform, and the presi-
dent of the University, the Rev. Dr. Patterson, in his
address on the occasion spoke of him gratefully as one
of the men who had brought the University to the great
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efficiency it had attained. Recently, Mr. Rhodes,
Premier of Nova Scotia, testified to the influence he is
bringing to bear on the affairs generally of the Province
of his birth. The Premier wrote Mr. Eaton: ‘‘At dif-
ferent times of late I have been on the point of writing
to you to express on behalf of the Government how
deeply we all appreciate the whole-souled and generous
interest you have taken in your native Province. Apart
from your contributions, which have been of tremen-
dous assistance, the example you have set has put in
motion currents of thought on the part of many old
Nova Scotians that will I feel sure be a stimulus and
encouragement to those of us who are trying to give a
real lead to affairs of the Province. I have not written
before because I feel sure that the greatest commenda-
tion must come to you in the satisfaction you must feel
in being able to participate in these good works. Never-
theless, I think you should know how deeply we appre-
ciate all you have done.’’
Shortly before this letter from Premier Rhodes was
written, Mr. Eaton was the guest of honor of the
Governor General of Canada, Viscount Willingdon, at
a luncheon at Government House, Ottawa. A news-
paper report of his visit to the capital ran as follows:
“C. S. Eaton of Otis & Co. was a guest at a luncheon
at Government House, Ottawa, Monday, given in his
honor by Viscount Willingdon, Governor General of
Canada, and in the evening he was a guest at a dinner
given in his honor by Gordon Edwards, member of the
Canadian Parliament. Other guests at the dinner in-
cluded Prime Minister of Canada ALcKenzie-King and
members of his cabinet, the Chief Justice and members
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of the Supreme Court of Canada, Sir Robert Borden,
war-time Prime Minister of Canada, and leaders in the
financial and industrial life of the Dominion.
“ At the dinner Mr. Eaton gave a short speech point-
ing out that while the British had always been great
statesmen, law-givers, and governors, they had appar-
ently lost interest in the economic potentialities of the
empire. ‘Canada’s role,’ Mr. Eaton said, ‘is to give an
impetus to the development of the untapped resources
of the empire and to bring profitable employment to
the one-third of the world’s population which is em-
braced within the empire.’ Canadians, he said, ‘should
not limit themselves to developing the productive
capacity of Canada, but should take over the economic
upbuilding of the empire, should make this job go, and
should stay with it.’ ”
This inadequate sketch of Cyrus Stephen Eaton I
have given indicates of course hardly more than the
beginning of his great career, and with wide fields of
enterprise opening before all men of vision in this mar-
velous age no one can possibly foresee what financial
and business triumphs he may yet achieve. A leading
newspaper under the caption “Cyrus Eaton Taking
Over Vast Enterprises in the Nation” has lately truth-
fully said: “Mr. Eaton is rapidly becoming one of this
great country’s financial and industrial giants.”
As this book of mine is primarily of intimate family
and personal interest I have a right in closing the sketch,
from my own close friendly intercourse with Mr. Eaton,
to say that this age has not produced in any part of
the world in any field of activity or walk of life a finer,
sweeter, more charming personality than his.
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Cyrus Stephen Eaton married at Cleveland, 29
December, 1907, Margaret House, daughter of A. F.
House, M.D., and his wife Grace (Cleve) House. His
residence is in Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, and his official
address is Cuyahoga Building, the same city.
Children:
i. Margaret Grace^^.
ii. Mary Adelle.
iii. Elizabeth Ann.
iv. Anna Bishop.
V. Cyrus Stephen, Jr.
vi. Augusta Farlee.
vii. VlacPherson.
119. Joseph Wilfred^*^ Eaton, younger brother of
Cyrus Stephen^° {Joseph Howe^, Stephen^, Amos’^^ Ste-
phen^, David'^, James^, Jonathan^, Thomas^ ^ Johrd)^ son
of Joseph Howe® and Mary Adelia (MacPherson)
Eaton, born at Pugwash, 28 February, 1897, was edu-
cated first at Woodstock College, Woodstock, Ontario,
where he was graduated in 1915. In December, 1915,
he joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force, where he
held the rank of lieutenant, but on account of illness
he was discharged from this force in November, 1916.
‘‘Owing to the hecticness of the war time,” he has
written me, “my college days were rather a m^lee,
I attended three institutions, in the following order,
McMaster, the University of Chicago, and Harvard. I
graduated at Harvard in 1920, since when most of my
time has been spent trying to regain my health. But
I was with Otis & Company, Investment Bankers, for
three years, before my health obliged me to resign all
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connection with business and come to Switzerland. My
residence for a good while now, as it will probably con-
tinue to be for at least two years more, is Lausanne.”
Joseph Wilfred Eaton married at St. Peter’s Church,
Eaton Square, London (the Rev. Austin Thompson,
Vicar) 15 September, 1926, Eleanor Gray Greenwood,
born at Colorado Springs, Colorado, daughter of William
Faulkner and Mary (Swift) Greenwood, descended from
New England people of note, her acquaintance with
Mr. Eaton having begun shortly after he left Harvard.
At the time of their marriage Miss Greenwood was
travelling abroad and they decided to escape the burden
of a conventional wedding at home by going quietly,
both being Episcopalians, to this historic London
Anglican Church for their wedding.
To my grief I have here to record that since my last
letter from my cousin, on the afternoon of New Year’s
Day, 1928, I received word that he had died that day
at Leysin, Switzerland, from tuberculosis of the lungs,
his wife and his sister, Florence, being with him.
Joseph Wilfred Eaton was a fellow of great refine-
ment and much social charm, but in the estimation of
those who watched him in his very brief business career
and noted the evident gifts he displayed he is also be-
lieved to have been, had he lived and had health, on the
threshold of a distinguished financial career. But he
is dead, ‘Mead ere his prime, young Lycidas,” and we
can only hope that great activities are now before him
in higher spheres of usefulness than this world presents.
Tons who knew and loved him, however, his loss from
earth is great.
Joseph Wilfred Eaton was a member of the LFni-
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versity Club of Denver, the Harvard-Yale-Princeton
Club of Chicago, and the University Club of Cleveland.
120. William Robb^® Eaton {Cyrus Black^, Ste-
phen^, Arnos’^, Stephen^, David}^ James^, Jonathan^,
Thomas"^^ Johrd)^ son of Cyrus Black^ and Mary Desiah
(Parker) Eaton, was born at Pugwash, 17 December,
1877, and married at Denver, Colorado, 16 September,
1909, Leila Carter. In various encyclopedias of a recent
date the facts are given of the brilliant career of the
Hon. Mr. Eaton. In 1889, as a boy of twelve he
obtained a position in a Denver bank and for ten years
thereafter he was in training in financial affairs. In
1900 he went into mercantile business and soon in con-
nection with this studied law in the University of
Denver, where in 1909 he was graduated LL.B. Being
admitted to the Colorado Bar, he filled the office of
deputy district attorney in Denver from 1909 to 1913.
In 1914 he was elected to represent the Denver Dis-
trict in the Colorado State Senate for four years, and
in 1922 was reelected for four years. During his eight
years of legislative service he was largely responsible
for drafting and passing several important construc-
tive acts affecting the social and economic welfare of
the State. In 1915 he drafted, introduced and secured
the adoption of a law that provided for the establish-
ment of the Industrial Commission of Colorado. This
was the first commission in the United States author-
ized to hear and determine controversies arising out of
industrial disputes. During the twenty-fourth General
Assembly of 1923 he was largely instrumental in secur-
ing the adoption of the Colorado River-Seven-State
Compact (Boulder Dam) by the Colorado State Legis-
t
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187
lature. His work in that session is especially noteworthy
in Colorado history. During the twenty-fifth General
Assembly of 1925, he was called upon to furnish the
Colorado Legislature with comprehensive data of the
needs of the State institutions, and he is credited with
preventing the recognition of extortionate claims upon
the State Treasurer and excessive appropriations. Dur-
ing his second term as Senator several attempts were
made to wrest their political rights from voters by their
representatives who had obtained offices in political
organizations under the direct primary law. He was
retained in a number of lawsuits, in which he stead-
fastly insisted and successfully maintained the principle
that the personal political rights of the voters should
be first respected, after which consideration may be
given to the powers claimed and asserted by their
representatives in such organizations.
November 6, 1928, Hon. Mr. Eaton was elected
Republican member of the United States Congress for
the First Congressional District of Colorado.
In addition to his law practice, Mr. Eaton has many
other interests and is an official in a number of corpora-
tions. In February, 1898, during the Spanish-American
war, he enrolled as a soldier in the United States Army,
but was not enlisted until July 26 of that year. After-
ward he became a member of the National Guard of
Colorado, serving as first lieutenant and adjutant of
its First Squadron of Cavalry from May 28, 1903, to
December 31, 1904. He is a thirty-second degree
Mason, belonging to Union Lodge, No. 7, A. F. & A. M. ;
Colorado Chapter, No. 29, R. A. M.; Denver Com-
mandery, No. 25, K. T. ; Colorado Consistory, No. i,
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A. & A. S. R., in which he has been an officer since
1922; and El Jebel Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He
is a member of the Denver, Colorado, and American
Bar Associations, the International Law Association,
and the National Association for Constitutional Gov-
ernment. He was National Alumni Secretary for seven
years of Kappa Sigma, a college fraternity, and is a
member of the University, City, Denver Country,
Lincoln and Denver Athletic Clubs of Denver, also of
the Motor Club of Colorado, and a charter member of
the Colorado Branch of the Sons and Daughters of the
Pilgrims. He belongs to the Denver Chamber of Com-
merce and the First Baptist Church and has been an
active participant in the affairs of the State Historical
and Natural History Society for a number of years.
Residence, 1430 Vine Street, Denver; office in the First
National Bank Building.
Mr. Eaton has no children.
121. William Hanmer^® Eaton {Arthur Watson^ j
Benjamin^y Enoch'^^ Elisha^^ David}^ James^^ Jonathan^^
Thomas^ ^ JohuS), son of Arthur Watson® and Frances
Maria (Hanmer) Eaton, born 3 June, 1879; married
17 July, 1901, Isabel Westcott Nicholson, daughter of
the Rev. Charles Mcllvaine and Gertrude (Nickerson)
Nicholson, grandaughter of the late Bishop William
R. Nicholson, and niece of Rev. Thomas W. Nickerson,
at one time Rector of the Episcopal Parish of Pitts-
field. Col. William Hanmer Eaton, as has already been
stated, has been president of the Eaton, Crane, Pike
Company since 1927. He served with distinction for
two years in the World War. He graduated from Trinity
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189
College, Hartford, and for six years was a trustee of
that college. He and his family are Episcopalians.
Children:
i. Hope^^, born 28 May, 1902; married 12 June, 1926 to
Alexander Simpson, 3d, of Englewood, N. J., and has
a son, Alexander Eaton Simpson, born 20 September,
1928.
ii. Isabel Wilmot, born 27 May, 1903; married 24 October,
1925 to Kimball Salisbury of Chicago, 111., and has a
daughter, Joy Salisbury, born 16 August, 1926.
iii. Ethel Frances, born 5 May, 1910.
iv. Cynthia Edith, born 22 April, 1913.
V. Sophia, born 25 May, 1907; died 21 October, 1907.
122. Rufus Sanford^® Eaton {Stephen Woodworth^^
Leonard^ ^ William'^ ^ Elisha^ , David^^ James^, Jonathan^,
Thomas‘S y John^), son of Stephen Woodworth^ and Ade-
laide M. (Sanford) Eaton, born 28 September, 1841;
married Annie Cox.
Children:
i. Louis Eugne^^, born ; died 30 May, 1904.
ii. Edna Maud, born .
iii. Helen Martha, born .
iv. C. Cox, born .
123. Leslie Emerson^® Eaton {Stephen Woodworth^,
Leonard^ ^ Williawd^ Elisha^, David^, James^^ Jonathan^,
Thomas‘S ^ John^), son of Stephen Woodworth^, and Ade-
laide M. (Sanford) Eaton, born 19 February, 1877;
married Minetta Crandall, who died 26 April,
1926. Dr. Eaton was graduated B.A. at Acadia Uni-
versity in 1903, and in dental surgery at the University
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of Pennsylvania in 1905. He went to Madras, British
India, in 1905 and practised there, but with his brother
Eugene Brayton returned to Nova Scotia and since
1920 has been practising with him at Wolfville, Nova
Scotia.
Children:
i. Gerald Leslie^^, born ; now a senior at the Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology.
ii. Elizabeth Mary, born ; a senior at Acadia.
iii. Isabel Adelaide, born ; died 6 July, 1914.
iv. Ella Barbara.
124. Eugene Brayton^® Eaton {Stephen Wood-
worth^^ Leonard^ ^ William’^, Elisha^ ^ David^, James^^
Jonathan^, Thomas‘S ^ John^), son of Stephen Woodworth®
and Adelaide M. (Sanford) Eaton, born 14 October,
1879; married Elsie Brady of King’s County.
Children:
i. Karl Bernard^^, born , studying now in Harvard
University School of Dental Surgery.
ii. Elsie Marion, born ; is a student at Acadia.
iii. John T. B., born .
Dr. Eaton graduated D.D.S. at the School of Dental
Surgery of the University of Pennsylvania, and in 1902
went to India and practised his profession at Madras,
British India, for fifteen years. In 1920 he and his
brother, Leslie Emerson, returned to Nova Scotia and
opened offices at Wolfville, King’s County, where they
still practise together.
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125. Ralph Leslie^® Eaton {Frederick William^,
Guy^, Guy'^, David^^ David^, James'^, Jonathan^ ^ Thomas'^ ^
John^'iy son of Frederick William® and Ella Maude
(West) Eaton, born 6 May, 1893, at Medford, Corn-
wallis, lived successively at Medford, Somerset, Ber-
wick, and Kentville. He was educated in the grammar
schools of Somerset and Berwick, and the Academy at
Kentville, but at the age of fifteen became a clerk in
the Passenger Department of the Dominion Atlantic
Railway. He held this clerkship for a year, and then
entered the service of the Bank of Nova Scotia. When
the Great War began he enlisted and went into train-
ing at St. John, New Brunswick, with the 26th Infantry
Battalion, a part of the 5th Infantry Brigade, winning
non-commissioned and commissioned rank in this bat-
talion and in the machine gun section of the said unit.
He served in England, Belgium, and France and was
wounded in the Battle of Courcellette. After eight
months in hospitals in France, England, and Scotland,
he came home to Kentville and after three months’
leave was attached to the Royal School of Infantry as
Machine Gun Officer and Instructor at Aldershot, Nova
Scotia. After a few months he was appointed Collector
of National Revenue, Customs and Excise Divisions of
H. M. Canadian Government for the Town of Kent-
ville and County of King’s, Nova Scotia, which office
was in direct succession to Frederick Clarence Rand —
see the record of Isabella^ Eaton (Ward^, John® and
Elisha®, David®) — , who had held the office for many
years. He is a member of the Citizens Bank of Kent-
ville and an active member and officer of the Canadian
Legion of the British Empire Service League. He mar-
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ried 12 January, 1921, Evelyn Mildred Spidell, only
daughter of the Rev. J. D. Spidell, of Liverpool, Nova
Scotia.
Child:
i. Madrienne RacheF^
126. Ernest Lowden^® Eaton {Walter Ernest^,
James Stanley^, Ward"^, John^ and Eunice Deborah'^,
Elisha^, David^, James^, Jonathan^ ^ Thomas'^, John'^),
son of Walter Ernest^ and Julia Maria (Burbidge)
Eaton, born 8 August, 1896; was educated at first, until
1912, at the public school at Upper Canard. In 1916-
1917 he was attached to the 219th Overseas Highland
Battalion, C. E. F., but was disabled through illness
and became a patient at the Nova Scotia Sanatorium
at Kentville. In 1917-1918 he studied at the Nova
Scotia Agricultural College at Truro, where he received
an Associate Diploma. In the summer of 1918 he was
Vocational Instructor in Agriculture at the Nova Scotia
Sanatorium, but in 1920 he graduated. Bachelor of
Sci( ntific Agriculture at the Ontario Agricultural Col-
lege. In the fall of 1924 he encered Macdonald College,
McGill University, for postgraduate work, as holder
of the Macdonald Scholarship for Nova Scotia in that
year. In 1925 he received there the degree of Master
of Science in Agriculture. In 1926 he entered the
service of the Provincial Government as Agricultural
Representative for the South Shore Counties of Lunen-
burg, Queen’s, and Shelburne, but in 1927 was trans-
ferred to a similar position in the Counties of Annapolis
and West King’s, with headquarters at Demonstra-
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193
tion Building, Lawrencetown, Annapolis County. In
December, 1928, he was appointed Professor of Agron-
omy and Superintendent of the Government Agricul-
tural College Farm. This position carries with it the
title of Provincial Agronomist, which is, however, more
or less honorary. He will live in one of the houses of
the Agricultural Farm.
Ernest Eaton married 14 March, 1921, Ellen Steckle,
youngest daughter of Henry Bleim Steckle, of Williams-
burg, Waterloo County, Ontario, Canada. The Steckle
family are of Swiss origin.
Children:
i. Eunice Deborah^\ born 16 January, 1922.
ii. Steckle, born 14 August, 1923.
iii. Margaret Rebecca, born 7 January, 1927.
CHAPTER IX
SOME FAMILIES INTERMARRIED
WITH THE NOVA SCOTIA EATONS
With my sketches of families of the other Connec-
ticut planters who came with David Eaton to King’s
County in 1760, and were later intermarried with the
Eatons, readers of my ^‘History of King’s County” are
no doubt familiar. The planters were almost all mem-
bers of families well known and highly esteemed
throughout New England, most of the settlers in King’s
County, as I have already shown in that book, coming
to Nova Scotia directly from Connecticut, though
most, like David Eaton, having early Massachusetts
ancestries. This is true, for example, of the Barnabys,
who came from Lebanon, Connecticut; the Beckwiths,
who came from Norwich and Lyme; the Bills, the
Blisses, the Brewsters and the Calkinses from Lebanon;
the Clarks from Colchester; the Cranes from Norwich;
the DeWolfs from Lyme, Saybrook and Killingworth;
the Ells family from Connecticut, but just where is
uncertain; the Fitch family from Wallingford; the Halls
from Mansfield; one family of Hamiltons from New
London; the Harrises from Colchester and New Lon-
don; the Newcombs and Pineos from Lebanon; the
Starrs from Norwich; the Strongs from Lebanon; the
Terrys and Websters from Lebanon; the Wellses from
Colchester; the Wickwires and the Willoughbys from
New London; the Woodworths from Lebanon. While
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195
of families not immediately from Connecticut, the
Belchers began in King’s County with Benjamin
Belcher, born in Gibraltar, probably of parents born
in England; the Chases were of Rhode Island stock;
the Chipmans, who have numbered in the County and
have sent forth into the greater world an unusually
large group of distinguished and useful men, began with
Mr. Handley Chipman, born in Massachusetts, but
who came to Nova Scotia immediately from Newport,
Rhode Island; while the Coffins and Rands were from
Nantucket; the Coxes from Maine; the Elders and
Mannings from Ireland; the MacPhersons, some of
whom became prominent in Cumberland County and
were conspicuously intermarried with the Eatons there,
were in Nova Scotia first settled at Shelburne, having
come there with many other New York Loyalist fami-
lies in 1782; and the Parkers, first settled in Annapolis
County, and then extending into Cumberland, were
from Massachusetts, as I shall presently show.
The Hamiltons
Of the Hamilton family in King’s County from which
I descend, there are no representatives in the name in
America. My great-grandfather, Henry Hamilton,
came from Scotland about the time of the American
Revolution and lived in Maine. His son, Otho, came
alone to King’s County and married my grandmother,
Maria Starr (her mother a DeWolf), but not only are
there no descendants by this marriage in the Hamilton
name in Nova Scotia, there is no descendant in any
name in the Province today. My great-grandfather
was presumably of the “Olivestob” Hamiltons, whose
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chief seat was near Edinburgh, on the Firth of Forth.
On the Olivestob Hamiltons generally I have published
a folio monograph, embodying careful researches I have
made in summers abroad in Edinburgh records, and
this monograph is accessible in most libraries that have
collections of family histories, in America and in the
great libraries of England and Scotland. On a distinct
branch of the Olivestob family founded at Annapolis
Royal, Nova Scotia, by Lieut.-Col. Otho Hamilton of
Edinburgh in the eighteenth century and including his
sons, Capt. John and Lieut.-Col. Otho, Jr., and his
grandson. Sir Ralph Hamilton, Knight, I have also pub-
lished a monograph. The founder of this family, a
cadet of the House of Hamilton in the Olivestob line,
was one of the earliest officers of the Fortieth Regi-
ment of Foot, Lieutenant-Governor of Placentia, in
Newfoundland, and earlier a member of the Nova
Scotia Council at Annapolis Royal from 1731 to 1744.
The MacPhersons
In pursuance of my researches into the history of
our Eaton family I have lately had occasion to inquire
carefully into the history of the MacPhersons of Shel-
burne, who as I say came there with hundreds of other
Loyalist families at the close of the American Revo-
lutionary War. Although from 1776 to 1784 some thirty
to thirty-five thousand Loyalists or “Tories” took
refuge in Nova Scotia from the American Colonies that
had revolted against British rule, intermarriages be-
tween the earlier settlers in Nova Scotia (of 1760) and
the Loyalists have been comparatively few. The Mac-
Phersons, however, in two instances at least, were inter-
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197
married with Eatons and so have sent into the blood of
Eatons an interesting, valuable strain that is showing
itself in notable achievement by people of the Eaton
name today.
In 1782-1783, at the close of the American War of
the Revolution, as I have said, occurred the well-known
migration of Royalists or Tories from the city and sub-
urbs of New York to Shelburne, Nova Scotia. The town
of Shelburne was planned in detail before the migra-
tion by influential New Yorkers, who because of their
activities on the British side during the struggle were
no longer able to remain in New York after the British
forces were compelled to withdraw and urgently sought
a new home. With the civilians of English extraction
went a small group of Highland Scottish families, the
male heads of which, who either immediately from
Scotland or for a few years previously resident in
America, had been sympathetic with the British cause
and had seen service either as officers or private soldiers
on the Royalist side. Among the Scottish families at
Shelburne anyone who has followed closely the Royal-
ist migration to Nova Scotia will immediately recog-
nize as conspicuous the Highland families of Campbell,
McKay, and MacPherson.
Of these families, the Campbell Highlander who
founded the family here came from Inverness, the
McKay soldier, who his descendants say, was an officer,
came it is said from Tain, Ross Shire, but the High-
land home of the MacPhersons has not been able to be
ascertained by me. We may, however, conjecture that
it .was far north in Scotland, very likely in Ross Shire
or Sutherlandshire. The McKay soldier who came to
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Shelburne was Donald McKay, who had five children
(his wife’s name we do not know), the eldest son of
whom, Hugh, born in Shelburne 12 May, 1788, died
in Boston 30 December, 1871, his wife, Ann (MacPher-
son), daughter of Lauchlin and Elizabeth (Urquhart)
MacPherson, being born at Shelburne 4 November,
1789, and dying in Boston 14 November, 1856. The
eldest son of Donald and Ann was also Donald, and he
became the most famous designer and builder of ships
in America, his name standing highest in the roll of
men who in the romantic days of clipper shipping sent
out great ships on the sea.
The MacPhersons who settled in Shelburne had at
least two notable original representatives. One of these
was Capt. Donald MacPherson ‘‘of the Infantry of
the British Legion,” who in New York 24 July, 1783
memorialized Sir Guy Carleton, K.B., General Com-
mander-in-Chief of the British Forces, in behalf of him-
self and the corps under his command, showing that
in the year 1778 the Hon. Lord Cathcart raised a corps
of six troops of cavalry and six companies of infantry,
all of which in their subsequent conduct had served
His Majesty with the entire approbation of the com-
manders of the British troops. He said that on the
seventh of March, 1781, the Secretary of State for the
American department had signified the royal pleasure
that in reward for their services the officers of the Brit-
ish Legion should have permanent rank, and that on
the reduction of the corps His Majesty would recom-
mend to Parliament that he. Captain MacPherson,
should be granted half pay. His representation on be-
half of the Infantry of his corps was that all its officers
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199
havingl been “sharers in the dangers,] fatigues and
extraordinary exertions” of the late service should be
shown the same consideration that the officers of the
Cavalry had already been shown, which was that they
be granted permanent rank. That Capt. Donald Mac-
Pherson was granted half pay and lived the remainder
of his life in Shelburne we have evidence in the fact
that he is mentioned as half-pay captain at Shelburne
by Sabine, that he made his will there 13 August, 1824
(probated 26 March, 1825), and that his widow Ann
made her will there 17 April, 1832 (probated 25 Feb-
ruary, 1837). That Ann MacPherson’s maiden name
was McLean is shown by her will, which states that
she had had a brother Charles McLean, who was then
deceased. The Anglican Parish Register of Shelburne
records the date of Donald and Ann’s marriage as 17
October, 1793. That the captain and his wife, Ann,
were survived by no children is also made certain by
the terms of their respective wills. In Sabine’s Loyal-
ists the author describes Captain MacPherson as “a
farmer and half-pay officer” at Shelburne, who con-
tinued to live there (after the town has lost many of its
inhabitants) and “who dressed with great pomp and
stateliness.”
I. Another notable representative of the MacPher-
sons at Shelburne, who possibly may have been father
of Capt. Donald, was Lauchlin, who unlike the half-
pay captain reared a large family in his Shelburne
home. His wife, whom he married in Scotland before
he came to New York, was Elizabeth Urquhart, and
it seems to me likely that Capt. Donald MacPherson
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of the British Legion, and a Peter MacPherson, who
appears in New York annals of the Revolution as
‘‘Captain in the Guides and Pioneers,” were their elder
sons. Beyond these, Lauchlin and Elizabeth certainly
had children:
I.
2.
3*
i. James, who even if he ever came to Shelburne, seems to
have spent his life in New York.
ii. Lauchlin, Jr., born in 1776.
iii. Evan.
iv. Ann, born 4 November, 1789; married 15 October, 1808
to Hugh McKay (by Rev. Matthew Dripps, Presby-
terian minister of Shelburne), and died in Boston,
14 November, 1856. Of this union as I have shown, in
the next generation but one, came Donald McKay,
the most famous designer and builder in America of
clipper ships.
V. Janet, who we learn from her brother Laughlin, Jr.^s
will was also married to a McKay, and had a son
Laughlin.
vi. Rachel (so it is said).
vii. Elizabeth, baptized in the Anglican Parish of Shelburne,
18 August, 1797; married it is said to a Cummings
and lived in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
viii. John, baptized in the Anglican Parish of Shelburne, 8
August, 1800.
2. Laughlin^ MacPherson, Jr. {LauchlivS)^ son of
Lauchlin and Elizabeth (Urquhart) MacPherson, was
born in 1776, and lived at Jordan River, Shelburne
County. In his will made 15 September, 1856 (proved
16 June, i860) he describes himself as “Lauchlin Mac-
Pherson of Jordan in the Township and County of
Shelburne and Province of Nova Scotia, Esquire.” He
mentions in it his beloved wife, Margaret (Martin),
his beloved sister Janet McKay and her son Lauchlin,
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201
Margaret A. Lyle, William Nickerson’s three sons, his
beloved brother John and John’s wife and two daughters
and the children of Gaven V. Lyle of Clyde River by
his first marriage. He further bequeaths for the bene-
fit of the Presbyterian Church in the town of Shel-
burne, the interest of his bequest to go towards paying
the minister’s salary. He appoints Andrew Barclay,
Esq., of Shelburne and Gaven V. Lyle of Clyde River,
executors, and his wife Margaret executrix of his will.
In the Shelburne Presbyterian burying ground are
tombstones to the memory of Lauchlin MacPherson,
who died 7 May, i860, aged (probably) 84 years; and
his wife, Margaret Martin, who died 22 December,
1874, aged 87 years. (He was therefore born in 1776,
she was born in 1787.) There is also a tombstone to
the memory of Margaret MacPherson, no doubt their
daughter, who died 22 April, 1848, aged 40 years (born
therefore in 1808). There is besides a tombstone in
memory of Ann, wife of Donald McKay, who died
24 February, 1856, aged 65 years.
3. Evan^ MacPherson {Lauchliv}), son of Lauchlin
and Elizabeth (Urquhart) MacPherson, was born prob-
ably at Shelburne and married there Eliza Demings,
descended from Anthony Demings (who was in Shel-
burne before the Loyalists came). At Shelburne he
lived much of his life, but like the majority of the Loyal-
ist settlers there, finally moved away. His removal was
to Cumberland County in Nova Scotia, where oppor-
tunities for a living were better, and at Pugwash River
in that county he spent the last years of his life and
died. In Shelburne he had probably seven children
born, at Pugwash two.
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Children:
i. Elmira^; married to Hearst or Hirst.
ii. Catherine; married to George Demings.
iii. Alexander, sea captain; married to Mary Anderson of
Pugwash.
iv. Elizabeth Urquhart, born 17 April, 1817; married 26
May, 1836 to Amos^ Eaton, born 6 October, 1815, at
Oxford, Nova Scotia, uncle of Joseph Howe Eaton,
great uncle of Cyrus Stephen Eaton.
V. Margaret; married to William Demings.
vi. Isabel; married to Anthony Demings.
vii. John Wesley; married Phebe Ackerley.
viii. Mary; married to Angus MacDonald.
ix. Fletcher; lost at sea, unmarried.
4. John Wesley^ AIacPherson Lauchliv})^
son of Evan and Eliza (Demings) MacPherson, born
in Shelburne 22 January, 1829; married 3 May, 1850,
Phebe Ackerley, born in Wallace, Nova Scotia, 10 Sep-
tember, 1830, daughter of Isaac and Esther (Doherty)
Ackerley.
Children, born at Pugwash River:
i. Amelia'*, born ii March, 1851; married (i) 4 September,
1873 to Amos B. Ripley of Hansford, Nova Scotia,
who died 30 September, 1880; (2) 2 June, 1884 to
John A. Oldham of Central Falls, Rhode Island.
ii. Mary Adelia, born 12 August, 1852; married ii Febru-
ary, 1871 to Joseph Howe® Eaton.
iii. Alexander, born 16 January, 1855; unmarried.
iv. John Wesley, Jr., born 15 August, 1859; married Nina
Ackerley of Pugwash.
V. Fletcher, born 22 November, 1861; died unmarried,
vi. Flora, born 3 March, 1863; married to Charles P. Day
of North Attleboro, Massachusetts,
vii. Rosa, born 9 July, 1867; died in infancy.
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viii. Ada, born 6 March, 1869; married to George Simpson
of Galt, Ontario.
ix. Emma, born 4 February, 1875; married to Edgar C.
Oldham of Central Falls, Rhode Island.
The settlement of Shelburne, Nova Scotia, by Loyal-
ists from New York, has been described in much detail
by the Rev. T. Watson Smith, D.D., in the sixth volume
of the valuable collections of the Nova Scotia Historical
Society, and in his ‘‘History of Methodism in the Mari-
time Provinces” Dr. Smith says that Anthony Demings,
by birth or ancestry a Portugese, had lived in Amherst,
Massachusetts, but came accidentally to Shelburne
long before the arrival of the Loyalists. When the first
fleet came from New York bearing these people he
acted as its pilot up the harbor, the place then bearing
the name Port Roseway (or Razoir).
I presume that all the Scotch Highlanders who came
to Shelburne came as Presbyterians, and I know that
the Rev. Hugh Fraser, who had been acting chaplain
to the 71st Highland Regiment, reached Shelburne
some time in 1783, and stayed there ten years. In
December, 1803, Rev. Matthew Dripps, another Pres-
byterian, came and entered on a faithful pastorate.
From the start, however, Wesleyan Methodist mission-
aries were active in Shelburne and no doubt some of
the Scottish settlers under their ministrations early
joined the Methodist body.
Connected by marriage with the MacPherson family
in Cumberland were other Loyalist families of impor-
tance, named Ackerley and Doherty, also from New
York, who seem to have come from New York directly
to Cumberland and settled there. From the Crown
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Land Office, Halifax, we learn that i July, 1803, Isaac
Ackerley and twenty-eight others received 7,450 acres
‘‘on the River Ramsheg,” in Cumberland, and tradi-
tion says that on the second of June, 1785, David and
Nathaniel Ackerley and eighty others received a por-
tion of a large grant apparently entitled “The Stephen
Seaman Company,” comprising 31,750 acres. This fact
we have obtained from a gentleman in Halifax. But a
newspaper article we have seen on the settlement of
Loyalists in Cumberland states that on a certain plan
of a “second grant” of 200-acre lots as laid out for the
“Westchester Loyalists and disbanded corps done
under the orders and directions of his Excellency John
Parr by Charles Morris, Surveyor General in 1785”
appear the names of Isaac Ackerley and 137 others.
The Ackerleys were undoubtedly from Westchester,
Isaac Ackerley’s mother, it is said, having been Phebe
(Howard) from Virginia, but we have no clear history
of the Ackerley family in Westchester or in Nova
Scotia.
Col. James Doherty was long an important resident
of Cumberland County, where his name is locally per-
petuated. There is some suspicion that he was from
Maryland, but of this we cannot now be sure. On the
fifteenth of May, 1818, John McLeod, “Mary, widow
of James Doherty, and Jane, Barbara, Esther, and
Catherine, heirs of the above James Doherty,” received
699 acres of crown land at Pugwash Harbor. On the
ninth of March, 1816, “letters of administration were
granted to John Black, Esquire, of the River Philip,
and Mary Doherty of Pugwash, widow and relict of
James Doherty, late of Pugwash in the County of
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Cumberland, farmer, deceased, of all and singular the
goods, chattels, and credits of the said deceased; they
having first sworn well and faithfully to administer the
same and to make a true and perfect inventory thereof
within three months from this date and to account
when thereto required. And at the same time entered
into bond for true performance thereof: John Black
and Mary Doherty, John McLeod and Ebenezer Fales
bound in 500 pounds.” This is the only mention in
Cumberland County probate records of an early date
of the Doherty family. Cyrus Eaton writes: ‘‘Colonel
Doherty, who was said to have been prominent in New
York City affairs, left New York at the time of the
Revolution and settled on a branch of the Pugwash
River which was named after him ‘Doherty Creek.’
One of his daughters, Esther, was married to Isaac
Ackerley. Her mother, Mary Doherty’s, maiden name
was White, from Long Island, New York. Isaac and
Esther Ackerley’s daughter Phebe was married to
John Wesley MacPherson.”
The Parkers
The Parker family intermarried with the Eatons of
Cumberland County, had a notable beginning in Nova
Scotia, and have been people of marked intelligence
and general worth, and of aggressive energy. William
Parker of Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, married 23 Octo-
ber, 1739, Mary, daughter of Simon Maynard of Marl-
borough, and had a third son, Nathaniel, born at
Shrewsbury in 1743, baptized there 20 March, 1743.
Going as a young soldier with General Wolfe to the
Siege of Quebec, after the siege he settled at Nictaux,
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Nova Scotia, in the eastern section of the County of
Annapolis, where as Major Parker he became a leading
man among the New England settlers there. He married
first about 1766 Anna Hardy, w^ho died about 1778;
secondly in 1779, Salome, daughter of Deacon John
Whitman, widow of Maj. Ezekiel Cleveland, she living
until 1830. Of the usefulness of this energetic and
highly intelligent and honorable man, the Calnek-
Savary History of Annapolis speaks most strongly.
Major Parker, it says, had much to do with the laying
out and construction of roads in the county and with
all other public affairs. He was the father of sixteen
children, all of whom grew to adult age, were married
and had children. When he went to Nova Scotia like
most of the other New England settlers in the various
counties he was in religion at first a Congregationalist,
but in the process of change of the greater part of this
body into a Baptist denomination Major Parker and
his second wife were strong pioneers. Believing that
their baptism in infancy had been a mistake they rode
on horseback, the lady on a pillion behind her husband,
through rough wilderness roads to the Gaspereau Valley
in King’s County to receive adult baptism by immer-
sion from some minister of like views with theirown,they
being the first persons, it is said, in Annapolis County
to take this spectacular step. Of the sixteen children
of Major Parker, the fifteenth, Maynard, born in 1795,
became a clergyman of the Baptist denomination, to
which he was ordained in 1831, w^as pastor of a church
at Lunenburg from 1831 to 1840, and was in active
work in Cumberland County from 1840 to 1844. Of
this last term of service one result was the marriage of
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his daughter, Mary Desiah Parker, on the fifth of Jan-
uary, 1842, to Stephen Eaton of the eighth generation,
the father of Joseph Howe, Cyrus Black, Frederick
Lane, and Dr. Charles Aubrey Eaton, of the ninth
generation.
The Starrs
Of the Starr family, conspicuously intermarried with
Eatons in King’s County, some facts ought here to be
given. One of the most important of the pioneer plant-
ers of King’s County was Samuel Starr of Norwich,
Connecticut, a descendant of Dr. Comfort Starr, pro-
genitor probably of all the Starrs of English descent in
the United States, whose grave is in King’s Chapel
Burying Ground, in Boston. One of the agents ap-
pointed by a large group of people of eastern Connec-
ticut who had been stirred by the offer of the Nova
Scotia Government of lands in the fertile Acadian
province, was Mr. Samuel Starr, a man of substance
and of integrity and high purpose in the beautiful
Connecticut town of Norwich. On the offer of the
Nova Scotia lands, Mr. Starr after careful investiga-
tion reported favorably and before long he and his
younger brother David, Samuel, with his wife, removed
with a large number of their acquaintances and friends
to the County of King’s. My own descent from the
Starrs is from David Starr, brother of Samuel, who
married in Cornwallis Susannah Potter, born in Hali-
fax, of English parents, and became the progenitor of
a family of great note in the city of Halifax and else-
where. Of my father’s brothers and sisters one brother
and one sister were married with descendants of Samuel
Starr — my uncle Leander with Pauline Starr and my
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aunt Martha with Pauline’s brother, Maj. John Edward
Starr, daughter and son of a later Samuel Starr, whose
residence was, among other members of the Starr fam-
ily closely related to him, in a charming part of the
County of King’s, near Minas Basin, the locally famous
'^Starr’s Point.”
My own descent from David Starr, my great-great-
grandfather, was through the marriage of his eldest
son, Samuel, my great-grandfather, with my great-
grandmother, Lydia DeWolf. This was not in the Eaton
line, but in the ancestry of my mother, Anna Augusta
Willoughby (Hamilton), a granddaughter of Samuel
and Lydia (DeWolf) Starr. My grandmother Hamilton,
the only daughter of Samuel and Lydia (DeWolf) Starr,
had as one of her aunts Elizabeth (Starr) Willoughby,
wife of Augustus Willoughby, and as an uncle Hon.
John Starr of Halifax, M.L.C., who registered arms in
the Heralds’ College in London, and whose wife was
Desiah Gore. Of the children of Hon. John and
Desiah (Gore) Starr, the tion. John Leander Starr,
M.L.C., aide-de-camp to two governors of Nova Scotia
successively, Gen. Sir Colin Campbell and Lord Falk-
land, married first Mary Sophia Ratchford of Nova
Scotia, secondly, Frances Barberie Throckmorton of
New Jersey, the United States. Of the few living de-
scendants of the marriage of Hon. John Leander Starr
and Frances Barberie Throckmorton, is their grand-
daughter, my beloved cousin and friend, Elizabeth
DuFais of Newport, Rhode Island, and New York
City, wife of the distinguished New York architect,
John DuFais.
Since people generally find it interesting to trace their
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descent if they can to persons who came to New Eng-
land in 1620 in the Mayflower^ it may not be amiss to
say here that the Starr family of Nova Scotia are de-
scended from one of the greatest in public estimation
of these Mayflower people, Elder William Brewster.
There was a family of the Brewster name and Brewster
direct descent in King’s County, and there were prob-
ably, as in the case of the Chipmans, and the Jehiel
DeWolfs (my own ancestors), other families who are
also of Mayflower descent.
CHAPTER X
EATON UNIVERSITY GRADUATES
As this book has proceeded I have shown that many
of the Nova Scotia Eatons have received university
educations and been given university degrees. As
Acadia University is situated in King’s County, the
original Nova Scotia Eaton home, more members of the
family have naturally been graduated from that college
than from any other. Not a few of these Acadia gradu-
ates, however, have gone from Nova Scotia to the
greater university. Harvard, in Massachusetts, while
some have been graduated only from Harvard. Besides
these two universities, a good many, as I have shown,
have gone to other Canadian colleges like McGill and
McMaster, and to important colleges or universities in
the United States and Europe.
Acadia Graduates, and Recipients from
Acadia of Higher Degrees
Eaton Names
Adoniram Judson, B.A. 1873 ;M.A. 1878; Ph.D. 1894.
Albert Kenneth, B.A. 1922.
Brenton Halliburton, B.A. 1859; M.A. 1864; D.C.L.
1899.
Brenton Halliburton, Jr., B.A. 1904.
Carl Margeson, B.A. 1911; M.A. 1913.
Charles Aubrey, B.A. 1890; M.A. 1893; D.D. 1907.
Charles William, B.A. 1888.
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Daniel, B.A. 1868.
Ernest Scott Magee, B.A. 1903.
Foster Fitch, B.A. 1886.
Frank Herbert, B.A. 1873; M.A. 1876; D.C.L. 1905.
Frank Howard, B.A. 1907; M.A. 1910.
Gerald Leslie, B.Sc. 1926.
John Edgar, B.A. 1890.
Leslie Emerson, B.A. 1903.
Lewis Frederick, B.A. 1890.
Perry Bowles, B.A. 1913.
Reynolds Charles, B.A. 1910.
Ross Chipman, B.A. 1913.
Besides these men, a small group of Eaton women
have received degrees. Such have been:
Alice Augusta, B.A. 1911; M.A. 1912.
Annie Winifred, B.A. 1909.
Elizabeth Burbidge, B.A. 1914; M.A. 1919.
Gertrude Ethel, B.A. 1916.
Isobel Jean, B.A. 1898; M.A. 1902.
Acadia Graduates Who Have Studied at
Other Universities
Adoniram Judson, graduated B.A. at Harvard 1876;
Ph.D. Leipzig 1885.
Albert Kenneth, studied in England.
Carl Margeson, took his medical course at McGill,
graduating there in Medicine in 1920.
Charles Aubrey, received an M.A. at McMaster 1896;
D.D. at Baylor University (U. S. A.) 1900; LL.D.
McMaster 1916.
Charles William, studied medicine for a year in
New York City.
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Foster Fitch, studied medicine at the University of
New York and took post-graduate medical study in
London, England.
Frank Herbert, graduated B.A. at Harvard 1875;
studied in Germany.
Frank Howard, took a theological course and gradu-
ated B.D. at Colgate in Maine, 1911.
Gerald Leslie, has studied chemical engineering at
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
John Edgar, was graduated B.A. at Harvard 1893;
LL.B. Harvard 1896.
Leslie Emerson, graduated D.D.S. at the University
of Pennsylvania, 1905.
Perry Bowles, graduated at Edinburgh, M.B.,
C.H.B. 1917.
Ross Chipman, graduated B.D. in theology at
Newton, Massachusetts 1917.
(Benjamin Rand, whose mother was Ann Isabella
Eaton^ Rand, was graduated at Acadia B.A. 1875;
M.A. 1879; B.A. Harvard 1879; M.A. Harvard 1880;
Ph.D. Harvard 1885; LL.D. Acadia 1925. Leaving
Harvard after his graduation there he studied at
Heidelberg 1882-1885.)
Harvard University Graduates
Adoniram Judson, B.A. 1876.
Albert Kenneth, B.A. 1929.
Arthur Wentworth Hamilton, B.A. 1880 (University
of King’s College D.C.L. 1905).
Francis Eugene, M.D. 1873.
Frank Herbert, B.A. 1875 (D.C.L. Acadia 1905).
John Edgar, Sr., B.A. 1893; LL.B. 1896.
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John Edgar, Jr., B.A. 1923 (Boston University,
LL.B. 1927).
Joseph Wilfred, B.A. 1920.
Karl Bernard, D.D.S. 1929.
(Frederick Clarence Rand, whose mother was Ann
Isabella Eaton^ Rand, was graduated LL.B. in 1882.)
Of Eaton graduates at other universities than
Harvard and Acadia, Cyrus Stephen Eaton, one of the
most important, as we have seen in the eighth chapter
of this book, was graduated B.A. at McMaster Uni-
versity, Toronto, in 1905.
ADDITIONS
Hon. Judge George Wheelock Burbidge
In my record on pages 58 and 59 of this book of the
family of David ^ Eaton, one of my grandmother
Eunice Deborah Eaton’s brothers, I have mentioned
that David’s second daughter, Lydia Amelia^ Eaton,
was married to Arnold Shaw Burbidge and had a son,
George Wheelock Burbidge, D.C.L., Judge of the
Exchequer Court of the Dominion of Canada, Deputy
Minister of Justice for the Dominion. This distin-
guished man, being of Eaton descent through his
mother, deserves more than a passing notice in this
book, but as I have given a detailed sketch of him on
pages 472 and 473 of my “History of King’s County,”
I will do little more here than refer my readers to that
sketch. Judge Burbidge was graduated at Mount
Allison University, in New Brunswick, and from that
university in 1888 received the degree of Doctor of
Civil Law. He married, in 1873, Alice E. Maxwell,
third daughter of H. Maxwell, Esq., of St. John, New
Brunswick, and has children living. In life he was a
communicant of the Church of England. His death
occurred at Ottawa, 18 February, 1908. It is a matter
of interest that his father, Arnold Shaw Burbidge, an
influential citizen of King’s County, who married for
his second wife, Rebecca Borden of Cornwallis, had by
this second wife a daughter, Julia Maria Burbidge,
(half-sister of Judge George Wheelock Burbidge), who
became the wife, 5 November, 1891, of Walter Ernest^
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Eaton (James Stanley^ Ward^ and Eunice Deborah^
John ® and Elisha®, David James^ Jonathan^, Thomas^,
John^. See page 177.
Lieut.-Col. Robert Barry Eaton
On page 31 of this book I have given a brief sketch
of Lieut.-Col. Robert Barry^ Eaton, second son of
James Killer® Eaton, C.E. (William Cater^, Dr.
Daniel®, Timothy® of Haverhill, James^, Jonathan®,
Thomas^ John^), born at Truro, Nova Scotia, 5
August, 1871. More recently I have received more
detailed information about Colonel Eaton, which makes
it desirable for me to present a longer sketch of him
here.
Robert Barry Eaton, a popular young member of the
Eaton family of that branch of it located in Colchester
County, enlisted at Calgary, Alberta, Canada, in the
Canadian Mounted Rifles, in December 1890, for
service in the South African War. To South Africa he
went with the Second Canadian Contingent, arriving
at Capetown in February, 1900. From February to
May, 1900, he was engaged in operations in the Orange
Free State, including actions at Vet River and Zand
River; in May and June operations in the Transvaal,
including actions near Johannesburg, Pretoria, and
Diamond Hill, and from July to November, 1900,
operations in the Transvaal, east of Pretoria, and in
Cape Colony, south of the Orange River.
At Ottawa, Canada, on the second of March, 1901, he
was appointed a lieutenant in the South African Con-
stabulary and on the twenty-sixth of April he reached
Cape Town. On the twenty-ninth of September he was
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promoted to the rank of captain and was immediately
placed in command of a force to establish a post at
Reitport, near Dewetsdorp. There he held command
for a month, when he was made second in command of
Major Vaughan’s Column, operating in the southern
portion of the Orange River Colony, in command of
six hundred mounted white men and about as many
Kaffirs. In various portions of the Transvaal he served
until the end of the War. From June, 1902 until
February 28, 1903, he was District Commandant of
East Bloemfontein. He was successively Staff Officer,
acting Sub-Divisional Commandant, and Assistant
Sub-Divisional Commandant, winning S. A. W. medal
four clasps, and King’s medal two clasps, until Novem-
ber, 1904, when he resigned his command and returned
to Canada.
When the Great War came on, on the eleventh of
January, 191 5, he was appointed Captain and Company
Commander of the 50th Battalion C. E. F., and he
served with this battalion at Ypres as Company Com-
mander in 1916. A little later he was promoted Major
and was Acting Battalion Commander at Soissure
and Vimy Ridge. In November, 1917 he returned to
Canada and served as second in command of Calgary
Depot, later commanding the Depot to the end of the
war. After the war he was appointed Lieutenant-
Colonel, commanding the First Battalion, Calgary
Regiment. From April, 1913 to August, 1920, he was
a member of the Alberta Legislature.
Col. Robert Barry Eaton married at Toronto, 25
March, 1901, Violet May Gordon, daughter of the
late Commander Andrew Robertson Gordon, Royal
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Navy, and granddaughter of Sir Melville Parker,
Baronet. His residence, as I have said in my former
sketch, is Cragmyle, in the Province of Alberta.
Children:
i. Constance May, born at Bloemfontein, South Africa, 14
November, 1913.
ii. Melville Robert James, born at Cooksville, Ontario, 12
September, 1905.
iii. Gordon Vernon, born at Cooksville, 20 August, 1907.
iv. Douglas Barry, born at Craigmyle, Alberta, ii August,
1911.
V. May Elizabeth, born at Craigmyle, 6 May, 1915.
vi. George Bruce, born at Craigmyle, 18 December, 1918.
vii. William Bligh, born at Craigmyle, 27 March, 1924.
Mayhew Emerson Eaton
On the seventeenth of January, 1929, the Advertiser
of Kentville, King’s County, recorded the death on
January fifth, of Mayhew Emerson^ Eaton (Elisha^),
born 14 September, 1840. The obituary says: ^Hn the
death of Mr. Mayhew Emerson Eaton, which occurred
at the home of his daughter, Adrs. F. S. Bennett, on
Saturday afternoon, January fifth, at Somerset, this
community loses an aged and highly respected citizen.
Mr. Eaton, who was eighty-eight years of age, had been
suffering from hardening of the arteries for several
years, but the immediate cause of his death was
pneumonia. Mr. Eaton was born in Billtown, son of the
late Elisha and Mary (Beckwith) Eaton. When a
young man he moved to Kingston, where he lived the
greater part of his life. He was twice married. His
first wife, Teresa Kilcup of Woodville, lived only two
years after their marriage. His second wife, Lucy Arm-
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strong, predeceased him eight years ago, and since
that time he has resided with their only daughter, Mrs.
Bennett. Funeral services were held on Monday after-
noon at one o’clock at his daughter’s residence. Inter-
ment was at Kingston. ”
Family of Walter® Eaton
On page io6 of this book I have given a rather ellip-
tical sketch of the family of Walter® Eaton (Levi*,
James^, Elisha*). Walter® Eaton, son of Levi* and
Eunice Ann (Ells) Eaton, born 19 July, 1866, married
(i) Minnie Burnaby of a Queen’s County, Nova Scotia
family; (2) her cousin, Evelyn Burnaby, daughter of
Robert Burnaby of Queen’s County, his first wife hav-
ing ^orne him one daughter, Muriel, who is the wife of
Edward Valentine of Detroit, the United States; his
second wife, bearing three children: Edward, Gordon,
and Gertrude. While this book has been going through
the press the second Mrs. Eaton has died, and a King’s
County newspaper of January 24, 1929, has announced
her death at her home in Cornwallis on the twentieth
of January. The newspaper obituary speaks of Mrs.
Eaton in the highest terms. It says she was a woman
of unusually lovely character, whose influence in her
community was always for the community’s highest
welfare. The obituary speaks of her two sons as at
present living in Boston.
James Hall Thorne, M.A.
On page 176 I have said that my sister-in-law,
Augusta Billing (Thorne) Eaton, wife of Leslie Seymour
Eaton, was daughter of James Hall Thorne of Halifax
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and Kentville. James Hall Thorne, Barrister, of a
New York Loyalist family, as I have further said, was
graduated at the University of King’s College, then at
Windsor, Nova Scotia (the oldest Colonial college in
the British Empire), in 1840 and was called to the
Nova Scotia Bar in 1844, where he rose to be Master
of the Supreme Court. On the thirtieth of April, 1847,
in the lieutenant-governorship of Sir John Harvey, he
was made Notary Public, and on 15 August, 1863, in
the administration of Earl Mulgrave, was made Deputy
Provincial Secretary, Chief Clerk in the Secretary’s
office, and Clerk of the Executive Council of the
Province, which combined offices he held until his next
appointment, in 1879. On 10 August, 1863, he had also
been made Registrar of the Court of Marriage and
Divorce. On June 30, 1879, ^^e lieutenant-governor-
ship of Sir Fenwick Williams, he was made Superin-
tendent of the Money Order Office at Halifax, a position
he ably filled until the office was abolished. He died at
Kentville 8 May, 1887, and was buried at Camp Hill
Cemetery in Halifax.
Herbert Stairs
On page 123 of this book I have mentioned the
marriage of my first cousin, Sarah Elizabeth Eaton®
(Leander^) on the twenty-first of September, 1881, to
Herbert Stairs, formerly of Halifax, son of Hon. William
James and Susan Duffus (Morrow) Stairs of Halifax,
and have given the names of their four children.
Herbert Stairs is known and will be always remembered
for his noble, self-denying work in Nova Scotia, espe-
cially in King’s County, on behalf of neglected and
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poorly reared children in the country districts, remote
from larger centres. This work was inaugurated in
King’s County by Mr. Stairs, and has been carried
on by him for sixteen years, in the spirit of a lofty
Christianity, but at the beginning of 1929 he has found
it necessary to give it up, so that it may be transferred
to younger hands. In his philanthropic work, while
she lived, my cousin, his wife, enthusiastically shared,
for as I have earlier said, she was a woman of large
sympathy and the most generous soul. Of the four
children of Herbert and Sarah Elizabeth Stairs, as
given on page 123, Edith and William Herbert are
unmarried, Mary Macdonald was married at All Saints
Cathedral, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 3 August,
1911, to Ralph Davison (born in Birmingham, England,
died in Alberta, — May, 1921) and has two children;
Alice was married 6 September, 1921, at Wolfville,
Nova Scotia, to Malcolm Wesley Bristol of Halifax,
and has one child, Marion Elizabeth, born 22 April,
1922.
Herbert Stairs is a member of one of the most notable
families of the city of Halifax, Nova Scotia, the com-
bined Stairs and Morrow families. His father, the
Hon. William James Stairs, M.L.C., was for many
years head of the locally famous business firm of Stairs,
Son, & Morrow, and was one of the most substantial
and most highly respected men of his native city.
His mother, Susan Duffus (Morrow), was likewise a
member of a Halifax family of exalted character and
high breeding. The sons of Hon. Mr. Stairs were:
John Fitzwilliam; James Wiseman; Edward; George;
Herbert; and Gavin Lang. The daughters were, Mary
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Anne, married to Charles Macdonald; and Margaret
Wiseman, married to the Rev. John Townend of Eng-
land, Anglican clergyman. Army Chaplain. The resi-
dence of Herbert Stairs is Wolfville, Nova Scotia. See
a genealogical and historical book on the Stairs and
Morrow families, published in 1906.
John and Anne EAton
In Colonel Chester’s ‘^London Marriage Licenses,”
page 438, a notice appears of a license given in London
in 1621 to a Rev. John Eaton, M.A., ‘‘Clerk” (Clergy-
man of the English Church), to marry Anne Crosman,
widow of another clergyman. Rev. Crosman.
Although it is very well known that John^ Eaton of
Salisbury and Haverhill was not a clergyman, this
notice has sometimes been given in print as relating
to our ancestor, and it is not long since I had to cor-
rect the statement that it was, on a paper intended
as a sketch for a certain “Who’s Who.” If any of the
Nova Scotia Eatons should happen to see the notice
in question, he should not suffer himself to be misled
by it. Our ancestor undoubtedly came, a young mar-
ried man, from the county of Wilts. His wife Anne’s
name we are as ignorant of as we are of the parentage
of either him or her.
As I have already intimated, it is a matter of great
regret to me that I have not been able to give the
record of every descendant of David Eaton to the
present year, but especially in the ninth and tenth
generations to reach all the family, scattered widely as
our people now are, has been for me a quite impossible
task. If any one who ought to be in this book finds his
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name not there, he will know that it is not by any
means intentionally omitted. I hope that henceforth,
on the very substantial basis that this book provides,
every person of our whole Nova Scotia Eaton family
will keep in some convenient form for the long future,
a careful genealogical record of himself and the other
members of the immediate group to which he belongs.
PURITAN PLANTERS
In my ‘‘Nova Scotia Eatons” I printed a poem I wrote
some time before that book was published commemo-
rating the coming of the Connecticut Planters to King’s
County in 1760. With some stanzas changed I reproduce
it here. It stands as the first poem in my volume “Aca-
dian Ballads.”
The rocky slopes for emerald had changed their garb of gray,
When the vessels from Connecticut came sailing up the Bay,
There were diamonds on every wave that drew the strangers on.
And bands of sapphire circling the steep brows of Blomidon.
Five years in desolation the Acadian land had lain,
Five golden harvest moons had wooed the fallow fields in vain.
Five times the winter snows had slept and summer sunsets smiled.
On lonely clumps of willows and orchards growing wild.
There was stillness in the forest and along the Minas shore,
And not a habitation from Canard to Beausejour,
While many a blackened rafter and many a broken wall
Told the silent, piteous story of Acadia’s downfall;
And even in Nature’s gladness in the matchless month of June,
When every day she swept her harp, the strings in perfect tune,
The land seemed calling sadly for its owners far away.
The exiles scattered on the coast from Maine to Charleston Bay,
Where with daily bitter longings for their old homes and their dead.
They bowed their heads in anguish and could not be comforted,
And like the Hebrew exiles long ago beyond the sea
Refused to sing the songs of home in their captivity.
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But the simple Norman peasant-folk shall till the land no more,
For the vessels from Connecticut have anchored by the shore,
And many a glad New Englander, his mind with Scripture stored.
Rejoices he has found at last this “garden of the Lord.”
There are families from Norwich, from Killingworth and Lyme,
Gentle mothers, tender maidens, and strong men in their prime.
There are lovers who have plighted their troth in Coventry,
And sweet, confiding children from New London by the sea.
They come as came the Hebrews into their Promised Land,
Not as to rocky Plymouth shores came the first Pilgrim band.
The Minas fields were fruitful, and the Gaspereau had borne
To seaward many a vessel laden deep with ripened corn.
They come with hearts unhardened by New England’s storms and
cold.
To found a race of noblemen of Calvinistic mould.
In the place of peasant Frenchman, and the Acadian land to teach.
The English love of knowledge, and the English ways of speech.
They come with Puritan fervour, but with mellow heart and mind
Toward the loveliness of nature and the best thoughts of mankind.
The measure of their manners was not gained from courts, ’tis true.
But life’s scantier schools of fortune have their own sweet work to do,
And the Planters spoke with pity of the poor French scattered wide.
And the patient, helpless cattle who for want of care had died.
The faithful cows and oxen driven from shelter at Grand Pre
Who in winter storms had perished when their owners went away,
And they walked with reverent footsteps through the street o’ergrown
with moss.
Where had stood the ancient chapel with its altar and its cross.
And they dreamed of Basil’s smithy sending red sparks to the sky.
Though they saw but purple thistles and pink fireweed growing high.
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The Acadian dykes have been rebuilt for years now many a score,
The cornfields stretch long furrows from Canard to Beausejour,
Five generations have been reared beside the broad Grand Pre
Since the vessels from Connecticut came sailing up the Bay,
And across the fertile uplands where the farmers reap and sow
The engine calls warm welcome to the hills of Gaspereau,
And outward to the ocean on the yellow Fundy tide.
Sail playful pleasure yachts and busy trade-ships side by side;
And the Planters’ lives are richer through the influence of time
In the things of truth that matter and the hopes that make sublime.
And their homes are clad with beauty, and their children’s lives are
fair.
And the people dwell in friendship through the country everywhere.
And the fear of God inspires them, as of old, to sacred deeds.
Though their Calvinistic tenets have given place to milder creeds.
And they watch with pride their orchards and their dyke-lands velvet
green.
And rejoice that on this wide earth can be found no lovelier scene.
Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton.
INDEX OF EATON NAMES
Abel Benjamin*, 64, iii
Abigail'^, 44
Abigail^ 118
Abigail Jerusha®, 118
Abijah Athearn’, 44, 75
Abraham*, 62, 75
Ada Marietta^®, 83
Ada May®, iii
Ada Theodate®, 103
Adoniram Judson*, 52, 92
Adoniram Judson®, 79, 130, 132
Agnes Lilian®, 106, 129
Alba Barbara^®, 148
Albert®, 83
Albert Edward®, 98, 143, 155
Albert Kenneth^®, 144
Albert Ross*, 65
Alexander*, 57
Alfaretta®, 88
Alfred®, 115
Alfred Blake^®, 154
Alfred Leander^®, 152
Alfred Levi^®, 121
Alfred Levi^b ^54
Alfred Starr®, 122, 154
Alfred Watson®, 117
Alices 40, 45, 76
Alice Allen^®, 179
Alice Asenath^®, 1 15
Alice Gertrude^®, 134
Alice J.®, 91
Alice Jane% 42
Alice Lavinia^®, 93
Alpheus*, 35, 48, 87
Amanda®, 66, 114
Amanda Jane®, 116
Amelia*, 60
Amos®, 38
Amos% 39, 46, 47, 48, 83
Amos*, 47
Amos Alexander^®, 85
Amos Blucher®, 83
Amos Richmond®, 87
Andretta®, 75
Andrew*, 75
Andrew Henderson®, 75
Angie Adelia^®, 148
Ann^, 42
Ann Eliza*, 46, 66
Ann Isabella*, 69
Anna Bishop^b 184
Anna Elizabeth®, loi
Anna Maria*, 61, 68
Anna Maria®, 80, 109
Anna Morton®, 124
Anne®, 86, 108
Anneh 10, 12
Anne Evelyn®, 57
Annetta®, 75
Annie®, 89, iii
Annie^®, 84, 85
Annie Creighton^®, 135
Annie Emma^®, 83
Annie Laura^®, 84
Annie Louise®, 121
Annie Maria®, 78
Annie Maude*, 67
Annie Pamelia®, 84
Annie Sophia®, 77
Armanilla®, 60, 97
Arthur^®, 114, 135
Arthur^h 143
Arthur Cornwallis^®, 147
Arthur Crawley®, 97
Arthur Harold^”, 99
Arthur St. Clair^®, 81, 132
Arthur Stanley®, 109
Arthur Theodorus^®, 100
227
228
INDEX OF EATON NAMES
Arthur Watson®, loo, 145-147
Arthur Wentworth H.®, 124, 155-171
Arthur William®, 102
Asa Bigelow^®, 84
Aas Caleb®, iii
Asael® 65,1 13
Asael Bill®,52, 90
Asael Emerson®, 117
Asenath'^, 43
Aubrey®, 102
Aubrey^®, 136
Aubrey William®, 103
Augusta Farlee^b 184
Avard Parker^®, 78
Barbara^®, 179
Beatrice Annetta^®, 151
Benjamin^, 54, 65, 99, 149
Bernard Harris^®, 148
Bertha Maria Lavinia®, 1 12
Bertha Marian^®, 90
Bessie Leona®, 1 18
Bessie Maria®, 98
Bessie Maude®, 68
Beulah^®, 85
Blanche Edna^®, 78
Blanche Mary®, 107
Brenda Dorothy^®, 130
Dr. Brenton Halliburton®, 60, 106,
107
Brenton Halliburton, Jr.®, 107
Brewer D. Moore®, 95
Budd Austin^®, 151
Burpee®, 100
Burton Chase®, 79
Calebs 41, 53, 63
Caleb, Jr.®, 63
Caleb J.®, 64
Dr. Carl Margeson^®, 150
Caroline^ 44
Caroline^®, 135
Caroline Augusta®, 60
Caroline Edith^®, 78
Caroline Grace®, 109
Caroline Lavinia®, 109
Caroline Maria®, 106
Caroline Matilda®, 86
Caroline S.®, 47
Catherine’, 45
Catherine®, iii
Catherine Starr’®, 121
C. Cox”, 189
Cedric®, 141
Charles’, 144
Capt. Charles’, 75, 76
Charles Alfred®, 1 1 1
Hon. Dr. Charles Aubrey®, 34, 87,
136-140
Charles Aubrey, Jr.’®, 140
Charles Aubrey, 3d”, 140
Charles Cottnam Hamilton®, 145,
i54> 155
Charles D.’®, 89
Charles Edward®, 76
Rev. Charles Edward®, 112
Charles Edwin®, 98
Charles Frederick®, 57, 59, 67, 103
Charles H.®, 89
Charles Henry®, 59, 115, 151
Charles Lewis®, 99
Charles Peavey®, 95
Charles Reynolds’®, 143
Charles Rupert®, 80, 132
Charles Stephen®, 92
Charles Wentworth’®, 81, 132
Charles William®, 104
Charlotte’, 41
Charlotte®, 88
Charlotte Anne®, 119
Charlotte Elizabeth®, 79
Christina Melinda®, 62
Clara^, 75
Clara J. S. De Wolf®, 94
Clara Maria®, 99
Clarence Hall’®, 79
Clarence Ward®, 129
Clarendon D.®, 64
Clarissa Margaret®, 53
Clement Belcher®, 56, loi
INDEX OF EATON NAMES
229
Clement George^®, 148
Clement Levi^, 102
Cloy Wells^°, 1 16
Constance May^°, 217
Constance May^^, 217
Constance Nina^^, 143
Constance R.^°, 121
Cora Belle^o, 132
Cora Lavinia^, 92
Cordelia^, 52
Cyrus^, 29
Cyrus Black^, 86, 135, 180
Cyrus 136
Cyrus Stephen^°, 34, 134, 180-184
Cyrus Stephen, Jrd^ 184
Cyrus Wilfred^h ^34
Daisy Locked®, 43
Dan^ 39, 52
Dr. Daniel®, 28
Daniel, Jr.'^, 28, 29
DanieF, 94
Daniel A. of Lowell, 7
Prof. Daniel C., 7, 9
Daniel Lewis®, 53, 95, 97
DarrelP^, 136
Davenport Chipman®, 114
David®, 13, 14, 15, 26, 27, 28, 37, 40,
41, 42, 44
David®, 37, 43
Davids 40, 42, 57, 58, 60, 66
David Hamilton®, 86
David Harris®, 84
David Henry®, 67
David Henry®, 1 18
David J.®, 1 14
David Owen®, 54
David Owen®, 100
David Rupert®, 59, 102
Deborah®, 38
Deborah^, 39, 41
Deborah (White)®, 13, 26, 42, 44
Deborah (White)®, 41
Delia Jane®, 84
Donald Chester^b ^44
Donald Lloyd^b ^43
Dora^®, 1 14
Douglas Barry^h 217
Douglas Brenton®, 119
Douglas Woodworth®, 52, 89
Eben Eugene^®, 106
Ebenezer^, 41, 62
Edgari®, 3^
Edgar Burton®, 117
Edgar Emerson®, 103
Edgar Primrose®, 97
Edithi®, 1 16
Edith Irene®, 105
Edith Sophia^®, 99
Edna Maud’^h 1^9
Edward^, 44, 68
Edward^®, 218
Edward Alma®, 91
Edward Evan^®, 85
Edward Gurdon^®, 118
Edward Hall®, 80
Edward Henry®, 94
Edward Higgins®, 85
Edward Manning®, 82, 92
Edward Stanley^®, 112
Edward William®, 57
Edwin®, 61
Lieut.-Col. Edwin K.®, 31, 32
Edwin Sheffield®, 103
Eleanor RutM®, 121
Eleanor Ruth^b ^54
Eleanora^®, 149
Elijah®, 37, 41, 53
Elijah^ 42
Elijah®, 62, 63
Elisha®, 37, 39, 52, 69
Elisha^, 39, 42, 54, 64, 217
Eliza^ 43
Eliza®, 51
Eliza Ann®, 64
Eliza Ann®, 1 16
Eliza Irene®, 54
Eliza Irene®, 100
Eliza Jane®, 55, 64
230
INDEX OF EATON NAMES
Eliza Katherine®, io8
Elizabeth®, 12
Elizabeth^, 39, 41
Elizabeth®, 46, 64, loi
Elizabeth®, iii, 132
Elizabeth Ann^b 184
Elizabeth Burbidge^®, 177
Elizabeth Jane®, no
Elizabeth Mary^b 190
Elizabeth Rebecca^®, 83
Elizabeth (Woodworth) b 46, 47
Ellai®, 85
Ella Barbara^b 190
Ella Elizabeth®, 117
Ella May^b H4
Ellis Le Royi®, 56
Elmer William®, 89
Emeline Augusta®, 59
Emilyb 42
Emily®, 66
Emily Angelb®, 136
Emily Augusta Thorne^®, 176
Emily Eddany®, 118
Emily Maria Hamilton®, 124
Emily Woodworth®, 121
Emmab 45
Emma®, 102
Emma Day®, 81
Emma Florence^®, 145, 155
Emma Irene®, 98
Emma Jane®, 78, 88
Emma Maria®, 128
Emma Sarah®, 86, 91
Enochb 39, 53, 99
Enoch®, 54, 97
Enos^®, 149
Enos Eldridge®, 109
Ernest^®, 88
Ernest Lin wood®, 106
Ernest Lowden^®, 177, 192, 193
Ernest Scott Magee®, 113
Estella®, 99
Esther (McLellan) Cater®, 28
Ethel Annie^®, 87
Ethel Evelina^®, 148
Ethel Frances”, 189
Ethel Genevra^®, 147
Ethel Jean^®, 132
Ethel Margaret”, 143
Ethel Maud^°, 79
Ethel Maude®, 113
Eugene Brayton^®, 148, 190
Eugene Courtlandt^®, 130
Euniceb 42
Eunice®, 46, 64, 66, 67
Eunice Ann®, 87, 117
Eunice Deborahb 40, 69, 72
Eunice Deborah”, 193
Eunice Maria®, 54
Eunice Marie®, 100
Eunice (Singletery)®, 13
Eva^®, 84
Eva Ruth^®, 134
Evan MacPherson®, 85
Evangeline May^®, 148
Eveline®, 77
Eveline Harris^®, 85
Evelyn”, 136
Evelyn Anna^®, 144
Evelyn Sybil Mary^®, 31
Evelyn Winifred”, 145, 155
Everard Doe®, loi, 148
Everard Harris”, 148
Everett Eugene®, 62
Evorah®, 102
Fannyb 44
Fanny Adelia®, 100
Fay EtheF®, 151
Fenwick Burpee, 1 52
Feynetty Charlotte®, 64
Flora Blanche®, 1 12
Flora Blanche^®, 142
Flora Jane®, 92
Florence Ada^®, 134
Florence Amelia*®, 83
Florence Bishop*®, 121
Florence Katherine*®, 108
Florence Jane®, 122
Florence Lady, 5
INDEX OF EATON NAMES
231
Forrest Albin^^^, 149
Dr. Foster Fitch®, 103, 150
Frances A.®, 91
Frances Helen®, 92
Frances Susan®, 122
Frances Theresa®, 57
Frances Winifred^®, 140
Dr. Francis Eugene®, 79
Francis Eugene, Jr.^®, 79
Francis of the Mayflower, 6, 7, 8
Francis, O. H., 4
Frank®, 97
Frank Elijah®, 62
Frank Elijah®, 62
Frank George®, 100
Frank Herbert®, 124, 171-174
Frank Herbert^®, iii
Frank Howard^®, 142
Frank L.®, 1 17
Frank Mailman®, 98
Frank W.^®, 116
Frederick®, 64
Lieut.-Col. Frederick^®, 153
Frederick Burton^®, 143
Frederick Eakins^h
Frederick Edmund®, 103
Frederick Edward®, 77
Frederick Follett®, 115
Frederick Lane®, 87, 136
Frederick Miles®, 68
Frederick Oberlin®, 95
Frederick Richmond^®, 87
Frederick Rupert®, 103
Frederick Stanley®, 112
Frederick William®, 115, 151, 152
Freeman Allen®, 98, 142, 155
Freeman Clarke^®, 143
George‘S, 40, 56
George®, 53, 94
George, Jr.®, 57
George®, 64
Capt. George®, 81, 85
Prof. George, 7
George Alfred^®, iii
George Bruce^h ^^7
George Cunnabell, 99
George Edward®, 66, 118
George Edward®, 92, 119
George Edwin®, 116
George Frederick®, 108
George Moss®, 89
George Norris®, 68
George OuthiP®, 150
George Rupert^®, 84
Capt. George Thomas®, 80
George Thomas^®, 132
George William®, 56, 65, loi,
113
George Wiswell®, 54, ico
George Woodworth®, 82
Gerald Le Roy^®, 155
Gerald Leslie^h 190
Gertrude®, iii
Gertrude^®, 218
Gertrude Claude^®, 151
Gertrude Etheb®, 144
Gertrude May^®, 134
Gideon 7, 40, 61
Gideon®, 61, 107
Gideon, Jr.®, 108
Gordon®, 66
Gordon 1®, 218
Gordon Vernon^h
Grace A.®, 91
Grace Adelaide^®, 87
Grace HunnewelP, 128
Grace Lilian®, 98
Graham Allen^®, 83
Gurdon®, 117, 118
Gurdon Noble®, 118
Gurdon Sturtley®, 118
Guy7, 42, 65
Guy®, 59
Hannah®, 51
Hannah Charlotte®, 118
Hannah Jane®, 67
Hannah Rebecca®, 98
Harley EverP®, 83
232
INDEX OF EATON NAMES
Harold^®, 136
Harold David^^, 148
Harold Tinson^®, 93
Harold WoodwortD®, 78
Harriet^, 44
Harriet Coretta^*^, 83
Harriet Elora®, 95
Harriet Maria®, 87, 103
Harriet Olivia^®, 102
Harriet S.®, 86
Harrison Worth^®, 121
Harry®, 92
Harry Burkett®, 80
Harry Havelock®, 124, 175, 176
Harry Nicholson^®, 129
Harry Northup®, 119
Harry Randolph^®, 121
Hartley Emerson®, 122
Harvey HalU®, 1 16
Helen ClougD®, 143
Helen May^®, 83
Helen Martha^^, 189
Helen Moira^®, 29, 30
Helen Wentworth Hamilton^®, 177
Henryi®, 142
Henry Allen®, 54, 60, 97
Henry Knowles®, 53, 93
Henry William,
1st Lord Cheylesmore, 4
Herbert B.®, 93
Herbert Francis,
3d Lord Cheylesmore, 5
Herbert Harris^®, 83
Herbert Vincent^®, 130
Herman Wilder®, 77
Hester^, 12
Hilda Harris^b ^49
Hope^b 189
Horace Mann^®, 150
Howard®, loi
Howard Frederick^®, 132
Howe®, 86
HugD®, 145
Hugh Hamilton^®, 155
Dr. Hugh Macdonald^®, 150
Ida®, 88, 91
Ida M.®, 91
Inez Hammond®, 75
Ingraham D.®, 89
Ingraham Ebenezer®, 52, 90, 91
Irene®, 60
Irene (Bliss)®, 69
Irene Deborah®, 53
Irene Lucy^®, 93
Isaac®, 62
Isaac Bigelow®, 85
Isaac Howard®, 77
Isabel®, 97
Isabel Adelaide^, 190
Isabel Wilmot^b 189
Isobel Jean®, 107
Jacobb 38, 46, loi
Jacob®, 51, 52, 62, 87
Jacob®, 80
Jacob Ellsworth®, 109
Jacob Valentine®, 46
Jacob Valentine®, 78
James®, 37, 43
Jamesb 28, 40, 44, 59, 60, 106
James®, 62
James®, 88
James^®, 85
James Delap®, 80
James E.®, 89
James Edward®, 48, 64, 65,
1 1 1
James Edward®, 68, 84, 115
James Edwin®, 60
James Edwin®, 106, 107
James Everett®, 99
James Harvey®, 68
James Killer®, 29
James Logan^®, 84
James Mason®, 54, 100
James Newton®, 65
James Stanley®, 69, 128, 129
Janeb 45
Jane Elizabeth^®, 149
Janet Nicholson^®, 179
INDEX OF EATON NAMES
233
Jay J.io, 1 14
Jean^S 132, 136
Jean Francis^^, 143
Jean Hamilton^®, 175
Jennie^o, 108
Jerusha Ann®, 67
Jessie Blanche Sutherland®, 113
Joan, 5
Joanna Caroline®, 64
Johnh 7, 8, 10, II, 221
John, Jr.2, 12
John®, 40, 44, 68
John 7, 40
Johnii, 136
John Brenton®, 77
John Chipman®, 108
Sir John Craig, Knight, 5
John Edgari®, 33, 86
John Edgar, JrdS 34
John Franklin®, 115
Gen. John, 14
John Gordon^®, 121
John Leonard^^, 149
John Levi®, 67
John Nicholson®, 129, 177-179
John of Dedham, 7
John of Eaton, 5
John Rufus®, 69, 127, 128
John Russell®, 86, 135
John Shaftner®, 99
John T. B.^i, 190
John Wellington®, 83
John Wells®, 65, 115
John Whiter 45, 76, 77
John Wilbur^®, 134
Jonas of Reading, 7, 8
Jonathan®, 13
Jonathan Locke^®, 149
Jonathan Rand®, 63, no
Capt. Jonathan Rand®, in
Joseph Edward^b ^53
Joseph Edwin®, 67, 119
Joseph Henry®, 56, 65, 97, 102, 113
Joseph Howe®, 86, 153, 180
Joseph Levi®, 119
Joseph Wilfred^®, 184-186
Josephine Elizabeth®, 109
Rev. Joshua Tinson®, 93
Judah^, 42, 66
Judah®, 66
Judson®, 59, 93
Judson Harris®, 83
Julia Etta®, 65
Julia Louise^b ^53
Karl Benard^b 190
Kathleen^®, 155
Keith^b 143
Kenelm Edwin®, 32
Kenneth Belcher^®, 152
Kenneth OxneHb i44
Kenneth Sutherland^®, 175
L. Victor^®, 122
Lamont®, 80
Lamont RoyaF®, 80
Laura^®, 117
Laura Augusta®, 103
Laura Jean^®, 1 1 5
Laura Jeanette®, 118
Laurie Everton^®, 99
Lavinia®, 66
Lavinia®, 100
Lawrence Hall®, no, 149
Leah May^®, 151
Leander®, 69, 122
Leander^®, 121, 152, 154
Leicester Perry^b ^49
Lelia®, 64
Lennie Gertrude^®, 79
Leonard®, 46, 55, loi
Leonard®, 80
Leslie Emerson^®, 148, 189, 190
Leslie Seymour®, 124, 176, 218
Leverett®, 105
Levi®, 51, 60, 88, 105
Levi, Jr.®, 89
Levi Erie®, 121
Levi Wellsb 43, 67, 119
Levi Woodworth®, 35, 47, 81, 87
234
INDEX OF EATON NAMES
Levi Woodworth®, 85
Levi Woodv/ortD®, 83
Lewis®, 1 19
Lewis Frederick®, 104
Lewis Randolph^®, 99
Lilian May®, loi
Llewellyn®, 107
Loretta May®, 109
Louis Eugene^^, 189
Louis Gurdon^®, 151
Louis Starr”, 153
Louis Stickleyi®, 118
Louise®, 77
Lucretia Naomi®, 62
Lydia^, 39, 59
Lydia Amelia®, 58
Lydia Ann®, 54
Lydia Ann®, 82, 1 14
Lydia Elizabeth®, 67
Mabeh®, 85, 142
Mabel Adelia®, 77
Mabel Irene®, 106
Mabel Leta^°, 99
MacPherson”, 184
Madrienne”, 192
Manson Henry®, 88
Margaret Ann®, 93, 115
Margaret Elizabeth®, 115
Margaret Eunice®, 116
Margaret Evelyn^®, 140
Margaret Grace”, 184
Margaret Lucilla®, 47
Margaret Lucilla®, 85
Margaret Manning®, 59, 114
Margaret Rebecca”, 193
Margaret Stewart®, 99
Maria®, 51
Maria®, 116
Maria Chapman®, 94
Maria Florence^®, 142
Maria L.®, 77
Maria Louise^®, 102
Marian^®, 149
Marian Aubrey^®, 140
Marietta®, 76
Marietta®, 116
Marjorie^®, 150
Marsden®, 62
Marshall Starr®, 119, 152, 153
Martha®, 13
Martha®, 53, 69
Martha Ella®, 60
Martha Jane®, 108
Martha Laleah®, 94
Martha Lorena®, icmd
Mary7, 45
Mary®, 46
Mary Adeile”, 184
Mary Alice®, 63, 67
Mary Alice Dickey®, 59
Mary Ann^, 42, 43
Mary Ann®, 53, 65
Mary Anne®, 95
Mary Eleanor®, 52
Mary Eleanor®, 92
Mary Eliza®, 67
Mary Eliza®, 78, 90, loi, 109, 112,
119
Mary Elizabeth®, 114
Mary Elizabeth^®, 97, 108
Mary Elizabeth”, 217
Mary Ella®, 80
Mary Eunice®, 62
Mary Eveline®, 88
Mary Jane®, 60, 63
Mary Jane®, 85
Mary Jerusha®, 117
Mary Judson^®, 130
Mary Lavinia®, 54
Mary Lilian®, 90
Mary Lois®, 57
Mary Paulina®, 54
Mary Rose^®, 140
Mary Sophia®, 122
Maude®, 64
Mayhew Emerson®, 65, 112, 217, 218
Mayhew Wells®, 114
Mayhew Wells®, 114
Melbourne®, 80, 1 1 1
INDEX OF EATON NAMES
235
Melinda^, 42
Melville Robert James^b 217
Merritt^b
Minetta Lavinia^®, 84
Minnie^b 114
Minnie Blanche^®, 93
Minnie Jane^b 15 1
Minnie Louise^b 85
Minnie Pomona^b 83
Minorahb 102
Miriam Beatrice^”, 121
Miriam Beatrice^b ^54
Muriebb 218
Muriel Beatrice'b H3
Muriel Enid^b
Murray^b 108
Myrtle Eudorab 113
Mysta Mabebb
Nancyb 39, 43
Nancyb 51
Nancy Adeliab loi
Nancy Laviniab 118
Nancy Sophiab 107
Naomib 63
Naomi Carolineb no
Nathanb 39, 50
Nathan Harrisb 47, 83
Nathan Sheldonb 121
Nathan Woodworth®, 67, 119
Nathan Woodworth, Jrdb 121
Nathaniel, 6, 7
Nellie^b ^4
Nellie Henigar^b n8
Nettie^b 102
Nettie Emma^b 85
Newton Alfredb loi, 149
Newton Renfelbb 149
Norman Bondb 108
Oliveb 39, 40, 45
Olive Elaine^b 121
Olive Elaine^b ^54
Oliver®, 46, 80
Olivia®, 51
Oressa May®, 1 18
Orinda®, in
Dr. Orletus Palmer®, 90, 141, 142
Otho®, 61, 109
Otho®, 108
Otis®, 93
Parker^®, ^34
Paul®, 97
Paul Carmebb 143
Pauline Starr^®, ^54
Peggyii, 136
Percy Havelock®, 103
Dr. Perry Bowles^®, 149
Perry Douglas^®, 87
Phebeb 28
Phebe®, 46, 51
Phebe Alice^®, 83
Phebe Loomer®, 88
Pitt Ephraim^®, 107
Prudence®, 38, 42
Prudenceb 41, 43
Prudence®, 51
Prudence^®, 88
Prudence Caroline®, 61
Prudence Eliza®, 76
Prudence Emily®, 119
Prudence Olivia, 76
Rachel®, 58
Rachel Adelia®, 86
Radford®, 102
Ralph®, 68
Ralph Ellington®, 100
Ralph Leslie^®, 152, 191, 192
Ralph Samuel®, 123
Rebeccab 39, 42, 44, 47
Rebecca®, 48, 51, 65, 67, 76
Rebecca Adelia®, 112
Rebecca Ann®, 75
Rebecca E.®, 84
Reginald Current®, 121
Reginald Leon^®, 132
Rev. Richard, D. D., 7
Robert Albert®, 61, 109
236
INDEX OF EATON NAMES
Robert B.^o, 121
Col. Robert Barry^, 9, 31, 215, 217
Robert Barry^, 9, 216
Robert Crane^°, 82
Robert F.®, 86
Robert of Eaton, 5
Robie DimocD®, 118
Rev. Ross Chipman^®, 144
Royio, 136
Roy Manning®, 68
Ruba Oddest^®, 116
Ruby Beatrice®, 122
Rufus®, 76
Rufus Edmund®, 109
Rufus Sanford^®, 148, 189
Rufus William®, 124, 174
Rupert Asael®, 1 14
Russelb®, 93
Ruth^ 43
Ruth®, 63, 65
Ruth Ann^, 40
Ruth Hathaway^b 33» 34
Ruth Maria®, 114
Ruth Roach®, 85
Samuel, 6, 7
Rev. Samuel, 8
Samuel Nelson®, 76
Sarah®, 37
Sarah®, 52, 53
Sarah Alberta®, 80
Sarah Alice®, 76
Sarah Alice®, 109
Sarah Ann®, 51, 61
Sarah Eliza®, 47
Sarah Elizabeth®, 85, 123, 219
Sarah Ellen®, 108
Sarah F.®, 63
Sarah Jane®, 75, 77
Sarah Jane®, 82
Sarah Julia®, 94
Sarah S.b 41
Scott Willis®, 1 17
Seffie Inez®, 1 12
Selden^b ^49
Selden Everard^®, 148
Sidney Jacob*®, 87
Sophia^, 41, 44
Sophia®, 95
Sophia**, 189
Sophia Adelaide®, 59
Stanley Harmon*®, 129
Stanley Roy*®, 143
Steckle**, 193
Stella Ellis®, 121, 154
Stella Jean®, 107
Stephen®, 37, 38, 47, 5c, 51
Stephen^, 39, 51
Stephen®, 46, 47, 79, 86, 133, 135
Stephen®, 88
Stephen Homer®, 91
Stephen Rand®, 52, 91
Dr. Stephen Woodworth®, 104, 147
Stewart Bertram*®, 133
Susan A.®, 66
Susan Anne®, 57
Susan Maria®, 93
Susannah®, 37, 38
Susannahb 41
Susannah®, 56
Susannah Maria®, 59
Susannah Selina®, 109
Sylvanus Morton*®, 84
Gov. Theophilus, 6, 7
Theresa Ann*®, 90
Theresa Ferguson®, 68
Thomas Edwin*®, 107
Thomas Woodworth®, 46, 78
Thomas Worden®, 64
Timothy®, 28
Timothy®, 37-40
Timothy, Jr.b 41, 61
Trueman Henry*®, 93
University Graduates, 210-213
Col. Vernon®, 29, 30, 31
Vernon, Jr.*®, 32
Vernon, Hugh**, 155
INDEX OF EATON NAMES
237
Victor Arnold^®, 79
Victor Bigelow®, 120
Violet Locked®, 99
Wallace Stephen Dexter®, 108
Walter®, 106, 218
Walter Ernest®, 129, 177, 192
Walter Russelh®, 80
Walter Stuart®, 108
Ward'^, 40, 44, 68, 69, 123
Ward, Mrs.*, 75
Warren Edward^®, 144
Washington Irving®, 90
Watson*, 54, 98
Watson, Jr.®, 99
Wells*, 66, 1 16
Wells Wentworth®, 116
Weston Hall®, 79
Wilbur C.®, 92
William^, 39, 55
William*, 69, 123, 127, 171
William®, 62
William!®, 88
William Albert®, 1 16
William Allen*, 76
William Arthur Purdy!®, 153
William Bernard®, 103
William BligD^ 217
William Cater^, 28
William Drummond!®, 150
William Edwin®, 100
William George!®, 154
Dr. William Hadly, 7, 12, 13
William Hanmer!®, 147, 188, 189
William Henry*, 61, 108
William Hobbs®, 86
William L. of Concord, 7
William Lloyd Garrison®, 99
William Meriton, 2d, 5
William Nelson®, 112
William Payzant*, 77
William Pitt*, 68
William of Reading, 7
Hon. William Robb!®, 34, 136, 186-
188
William Ronald!®, 175
William Rupert Shannon!®, 132, 133
William Russelb®, 136
William Sawyer!!, 1 53
William Thomas®, 78
William W.!®, 86
William Webster®, 108
William Wentworth*, 53, 95
Winifred Amy!®, 143
Worthy!®, 88
Wyatt, 14
Zerviah^, 38
INDEX OF OTHER NAMES
Ackerley Family, 203-205
Adams, Robert Chapman, 95
Allen, Abby Louise, 178
Dr. J. Weston, 178
Walter, 178
Capt. Walter, 178
Alonzo, Christiana Melinda, 62
George, 62
Victoria Corinthia, 62
Anderson, Elsie E., 148
Armstrong, Lucy, 218
Lucy Olivia, 1 12
Arran, Earl of, 55, 58
Baden-Powell, General, 30
Bagley, Frances Imogene, 90
Balcom, Amy Elizabeth, 122
Barnaby, Elisha, 40
Eliza Irene, 40, 59
George Eaton, 40
Hopested, 40
Timothy, 39
Worden, 39, 59
Barney, Irena L., 91
Lucas, 91
Baxter, Leslie Eaton, 67
William H., 67
Beach, Ruth Ann, 77
Beckwith, Mary, 64
Mrs. Sarah (Rand), 40
Belcher, Grace, 106
John, 1 14
Col. William, 106
Benjamin, Eunice, 63
Bennett, Mrs. F. S., 217
George, 42
Bentley, Sophia, 99
William, 43
Bigelow, Alice, 83
Caroline, 47
Bigelow, Edwin Clay, 47
Emma, 47
Gideon, 47
Isaac Newton, 47, 48
James Edward, 47, 48
John, 81, 83
John Clifford, 47
John E., 1 19
Minnie Beatrice, 119, 120
Nathan Harris, Mrs., 83
Sarah, 47, 81
Seymour, 47
Bill, Asael, 51
Mary Eliza, 51
Bishop, William, 42
Black, Cyrus, 18, 82
Family, 50
Hester Ann, 91
Rev. William, 50
Dr. William T., 53
Blain, Elizabeth, 47
Mrs., 47
Blesdale, Ralfe, 12
Bliss, Eunice (Fish), 39
Nathaniel, 39
Boggs, Albert, 98
Henry Herbert, 98
Theodore, 98
Rev. William B., 98
Borden, Cora M., 144
Edward, 44
John, 106
Bowles, Augusta, 149
Boyce, Jacob, 132
Boynton, Henry, 65
Bradley, Elizabeth Ellen, 92
Brady, Elsie, 90
Bragg, James, 41
Brechin, Mary J., 100
Perez M., 100
238
INDEX OF OTHER NAMES
239
Brooks, William, 68
Brown, Mrs. George, 12
Nathaniel, 53
Bruce, John, 88
Buckley, Harold, 132
Hazel, 132
May, 132
Bulmer, Margaret, 52
William, 52
Burbridge, Arnold S., 58
Clara, 77
Judge George Wheelock, 59,214,215
Henry, 58
Leander, 106
Lydia, 59
William, 77
Burnaby, Evelyn, 106, 28
Minnie, 106, 218
Robert, 218
Burwell, Amstis, 140
Robert Winsor, 140
William, 140
Calkin, Frederick, 89
Henrietta, 89
Caulkins, Charles, 41
Calnek, Henry, 78
Maurice, 78
Campbell, Lola, 142
Carroll, Charles, 95
Elizabeth, 95
Carter, Augustus, 82
George, 82
John W., 82
Leila, 186
William, 28
Caulkins, Frances M., 19
Champlain, 1 5
Cheney, Rev. William F., 34
Chesnutt, Annie Muriel, 135
Caroline Marguerite, 135
Earl Arthur, 135
Mark, 135
Walter Millard, 135
Chipman, Ian Beverley Manners, 128
Chipman, Col. Leverett De Veber,
128
Capt. Leverett De Veber, Jr., 128
Reginald Wemyss, 128
Wilford Henry, 128
Chisholm, Leta Margaret, 120
Clark, Mary Ann, 28
Clarke, Elvira, 94
Lena, 142
Leonard, 142
Coffin, Deborah, 75
Jane, 75
John Russell, 45, 75
Cogswell, James, 42
John, 40
John Leander, 42
Lydia, 42
Mason, 42
Coldwell, David, 88
Eliza Jane, 88
Comstock, Newton, 67
Conley, Joseph, 63
Connecticut Families, 194, 195
Connors, George D., 45
Cook, Caroline Rose, 1 1 1
Corey, Frederick Daniel, 140
Winifred Wilma, 140
Cornwallis, Col. Edward, 16
Cox, Alice, 1 17
Annie, 189
Arthur, 38, 41
Elizabeth, 45
Fannie, 117
Garland, 38
Garrard Beekman, 45
George, 38, 62
Capt. Harry, 38
Harry, Jr., 38
James, 45
Jennie, 117
John, 38
Joseph, 62
Judah, 38
Laura, 117
Ora, 1 17
240
INDEX OF OTHER NAMES
Cox, Paulina, 38
Ruth, 62
Samuel, 38
Susan, 62
Susannah, 38
Thomas, 45, 62, 117
William, 45, 1 17
Rev. William James, 48
Crandall, Minetta, 189
Noble, 69
Crane, Arthur Eaton, 147
Barbara, 147
Emory Morse, 136
Family, 50
Mary Anne, 82
Rev. Robert H., 82
Hon. Winthrop Murray, 147
Winthrop Murray, 3d, 147
Crocker, Mrs. Jedediah, 64
Crossman, Delana, 115
Cumming, Mary, 136
Cunnabell, George W., 54
Curry, James, 51
Cutts, Frances Elvira, 53
Theodore, 53
Dashwood, Francisjohn Vernon, 31
Sir John Lindsay, 30, 31
Maud Helen Sarah, 31
Sir Robert John, 30
Davidson, Mary Adelia, 83
Davis, Ella, 85
Day Brayton C., 92
Emeline Mary, 80
Delancey and Watts, 18
Deming, Rebecca Leonard, 102
Lieut-Col. William, loi
Dernier, Douglas Wilson, 140
Douglas Wilson, Jr., 140
Mary Evelyn, 140
DeMonts, 15
Denton, Vernon Llewellyn, 149
D’Entremont, Maude, 68
DeWolf, Benjamin, 55
Family, 60
DeWolf, John, 55, 58
John Kirtland, 85
Laleah Frances, 151
Lucy Ann, 93
Minnie, 93
Nancy, 55
Nathan, 47
Rachel Otis, 58
Rebecca, 76
Robert, 85
Sarah Hersey Otis, 55
Simeon, 55, 58
Thomas, 94
DeWolfe, John Eaton, 121
Royal Owen, 121
Royal Warner, 121
De Young, Caroline, 85
Dickey, Janet Augusta, 107
Thomas, 107
Doherty Family, 204, 205
Dosser, John S., 116
Doughty, James, 63
Dow, Mrs. Phebe, 12
Du Fais, John, 208
Duncanson, Allie, 108
Dunham, Susan, 87
Dunnell, Frederick Ashley, 86
Eagles, Nathaniel Faulkner, ii
Eakins, May Isobelle, 153
Robert Sargent, 1 53
Edwards, Janet, 121
Elder, Jane, 103
Samuel, 103
Ells, Benjamin, 42, 43
Charles Edward, 122
Eunice, 103
Eunice Ann, 105
Joshua, 122
Robert, 45, 105
Sophia, 99
Watson, 1 17
William, 44, 99
Emmett, James, 52
English, Alice, 26
INDEX OF OTFIER NAMES
241
Erroll, Earl of, 55, 58
Evans, Llewellyn, 106
Mary Jean, 106
Rufus, 85
Farnham, William, Sr., 60
William, Jr,, 60
Farnsworth, Lucy, 43
Farquharson, John, 76
Farrin, Joseph, 41
Fenderson, George, 108
Penning, Ethel Mae, 108
Harry K., 108
Ralph Foster, 108
Walter Arnold, 108
Field, Robert (painter), 56
Fieldhouse, James, 176
Roland, 176
Fifield, Walter S., 118
Fisk, Charles, 65
Fitch, Joanna Augusta, 102
Maria, 102
William, 102
Fitz, Randolph, Hon. Archibald,
29, 30
Randolph, Myra, 29
Forrest, Annie, 136
Forsythe, James, 89
Lewis, 88
Fox, Elizabeth Ann, 79
Fraser, Alexander, 57
Elsie Mary, 150
Florence, 97
Hon. James, 58
Sarah Rachel, 55, 58
Freeman, Rev. Charles Bradford, 148
Dr. Edward, 149
Mary Jane, 149
Frost, Simeon Loder, 92
Gardner, Charles, 1 1 1
George, Elizabeth Jane, 1C4
William F., 154
Getchell, Mrs. William Henry, 41
Gillian, Mary C., 95
Gilliatt, Adelia Gertrude, 102
Gilman, N. J., 62
Gilroy, Frandena, 143
Gordon, Commander Andrew R.,
31, 216
Violet May, 31, 216
Gore, Eliza Amelia, 55
Hon. Charles Stephen, 55, 58
Gorman, Patrick C., 64
Gould, Henrietta Sophronia, 109
William, 109
Gow, Robert, 77
Green, Mrs. 41
Greenlaw, Charles, iii
Laleah May, 1 1 1
Greenwood, Eleanor Gray, 185
William Faulkner, 185
Griffin, Clarence, 60
Enoch, 60
Martin Joseph, 55
Grosvenor, Joan, 5
Ralfe de, 5
Sir Richard, 5
Hall, Ella E., 116
Henry, 43
Lawrence, 46
Mrs. Samuel, ii
Sarah Ann, 79
Hallett, Clara A., 102
Elisha, 102
Hamilton, Anna Augusta Willoughby,
123
Rev. David Stuart, 127
Family, 195, 196
Josephine Collins, 127
Otho, 123, 127
Hancock, John, 18
Thomas, 18
Hanmer, Frances Maria, 145
William, 145
Hanson, Alice Russell, 123
John F., 123
Hardy, Aaron, 44
Nancy J., 62
242
INDEX OF OTHER NAMES
Harkins, Harry, 47
Lilia, 47
w. S., 47
Harmon, George, 129
Lucy Dunham, 129
Harris, Alpheus, 39, 47, 78
Dr. Charles, 59
Rev. David, 59
Elisha, 100
F., 149
Henry S., 116
Judson D., 59
Lebbeus, 47
Lucilla, 100
Rebecca Eaton, 78
Thomas, 78
Sarah, 47
Hathaway, Hannah M., 33
Hayward, Rev. Dr. Silvanus, 7
Henderson, Charlotte, 75
Helen, 136
Henigar, Bessie, 118
Rev. James, 1 18
Herring, Emma Furnace, 84
Herson, Drusilla, 63
Silvinia, no
Hilpert, George, 40
His, George Jean, 140
George Noel, 141
Hobbs, Rev. William, 82
Hooker, Rev. Thomas, 37
Hopkins, Harriet, 92
Lavinia, 90
Rhoda, 89
Susan H., 90
Horton, Lucy Maria, 83
House, Dr. A. F., 184
Margaret, 184
Howard, Rev. Thomas D., 53
Howe, Nahum, 116
Hubley, Rosa, 99
Hunter, John M., 84
Huntington, Elizabeth, 88
Huntley, James, 44
Hurd, Florence, 148
Huston, Frank, Jr., 122
Jeffery, George, 177
Harold, 177
Harold Wentworth Thorne, 177
Margaret Hamilton Philby, 177
Jennison, Frances, 114
Johnson, Adelia, no
Alice E., no
Amy Gertrude, 1 1 1
Bertha, no
Caroline May, in
Fannie, in
Gradis, no
Harriet Maud, 1 10
I. S., 86
Ida Stella, in
Lilian, in
Seward H., 1 10
Willard Milton, no
William, no
Jones, Augusta, 108
Kent, Martha, 13
Kilcup, Mrs., 41
Theresa, 112, 217
Kinsman, Althea Amanda, 100
Ebenezer, 42
Richmond W., 118
Theodorus, 100
Knowles, Martha, 52
Kollock, Capt. Simon, 29
Lambert, Wallace, in
Lawrence, Gov. Charles, 17, 19
Layton, Edith Marguerite, 31
Lieut. F. P. H., 124
George Albert, 124
George Boardman, 31
Learned, George U., Esq., 145
Katharine Amelia, 145
Leary, Sophia Elizabeth, 107
Leonard, Harvey, in
Little, Alfred, 148
Kenneth E., 148
Vernon W., 148
INDEX OF OTHER NAMES
24
Locke, Enos, 149
Hon. Samuel, 153
Jerusha, 149
Lockwood, Emily Charlotte, 143
James Edward, 143
Loomer, Phebe, 50
Lord, Nehemiah, 64
Low, A. P., 29
Lowden, David, 67
Ethel Marian 129
Gladys Lilian, 129
George Stanley, 129
Rev. Dr. John Mackenzie, 129
Lull, Alice, 1 16
Luther, Caroline, 89
Flora, 104
McAlmond, Hugh, 42
McArthur, Jane A., 136
McCall, Samuel, 1 54
McDonald, Brison, 87
Helen Howat, 140
McDougall, , 52
McGinnis, Florence, 118
McNeily, Mrs. — , 150
McNutt, James, 114
Macomber, Charles Clark, 179
MacPherson, Elizabeth Urquhart, 84
Family, 49, 50, 84, 196-203
John Wesley, 133
Magee, Louisa, 113
Lucius Henry, 1 14
Mailman, John, 54
Manners, Muriel, 128
Manning, Anne Catherine, 56
Benjamin, 38
Edward, 38
Elizabeth, 38
John M. P. P., 38, 56
John, Jr., 38
Joseph, 38
Margaret, 38
Nancy, 38, 43, 68
Peter, 43
Sarah Jane, 38, 68
Manning, Thomas, 38
Walter, 38
Walter Carroll, 56
Margeson, Elizabeth, 150
Marr, Adelaide, 93
Martin, Charles B., 116
Mascarene, Lieut.-Col. Paul, 16
Masters, William Edwin, 75
Eugene Campbell, 75
George Andrew, 75
Gertrude Aberly, 75
Grace D., 75
Inace Ralph, 75
John Gustave, 75
Mawer, Allen, 3
Mayflower Families, 209
Mills, Eudora, 133
Minett, Ella, 114
Nancy, 114
Morris, Mrs. — , 41
Morrison, Alexander, 56
Mosher, Edwin, 98
Mabel Grace, 98
Moss, Wealthy, 89
Moulton, Annie, 115
Muir, Dr. Walter, 48
William A., 61
Neily, Ellen, 99
Inglis, 65
Nelson, Edgar Eaton, 118
George Baker, 118
Joseph, 1 17
Newcomb, Asaph W., 76
Brenton M., 61
Emma M., 61
J. Gideon, 61
Capt. Guy, 44
Phebe Ann, 75
Wentworth Harry, 118
William, 61
William A., 61
Nicholson, Bishop William R., 188
Rev. Charles Mcllvaine, 188
Isabel Westcott, 188
244
INDEX OF OTHER NAMES
Nicholson, Janet, 128
Peter, 128
Nickerson, Rev. Thomas, 188
North, May Florence, 148
Northup, John, 66
Joseph, 67
Mary Eliza, 67, 1 19
O’Brien, J. D., 91
O’Donnell, Ann, 107
Offen, Thomas, 100
Otis, Dr. Ephraim, 55
Rachel, 55
Oxner, Sophia, 144
Palmer, Maria B., 90
Palmeter, Charles, 62
Eunice, 62
John, 61
Parker, Charles, 78
Family, 205-207
Henrietta E., 78
John, 46
Mary Desiah, 86, 133
Rev. Maynard, 86
Sir Melville, 217
William H., 51
Parkman, Francis, 49
Parlin, Capt. W. D., 140
Mary Winifred, 140
Parsons, John, 67
Patterson, E. O., 107
Payzant, Lydia, 77
Peavey, Sarah Ann, 95
Peet, Henrietta Frank, 92
Petty, Fernando Cortez, 90
Pierce, Edward, 85
Eliza E., 85
Nelson, 85
Neva W., 85
Pilling, Amelia Etta, 85
Amos Henry, 85
John Henry, 85
Pineo, Erastus, 66
Eunice, 66
Pineo, William, 66
Pitblado, Anna King, 29
Pitman, Alice, 108
Porter, Albert, 60
Asael, 51
Charles William, 61
Frank Ruggles, 128
Henry, 51
Kinsman, 58
Leah, 15 1
Pingree, 60
William Collins, 128
William Hamilton, 128
Post, E. J., 91
Poutrincourt, 15
Power, Gideon, 76
Raeder, Dr. Oscar J., 129
Rand, Abigail, 44
Dr. Benjamin, 69, 72, 73, 74, 75
Caleb, 41
Catherine, 44
Ebenezer, 69, 73
Elizabeth, 41
Eunice Ann, 88
Fenwick Williams, 69
Florence, 69
Frederick Clarence, 69
Gurdon, 43
Jane, 63
Jeremiah, 88
John, 44, 69
Jonathan, 63
Laura Francesca, 69
Lydia Ellen, 60
Marchant, 38
Margaret (McKenzie), 69
Michael, 87
Peter, 41
Rachel, 87
Tabitha, 44
Dr. Theodore Harding, 59, 60
Thomas, 59
William, 39
Rathbone, Charles, 108
INDEX OF OTHER NAMES
245
Rawding, Joseph H., 76
Rea, Margaret, 135
Reid, Allan C., 95
Ezra, 1 17
Henry, 88
Mary, 117
Rhodes, Helen Sophia, 113
Rice, Gabrielle, 79
Richardson, Ralph S., 33
Ring, lantha Ann, 67
James, 68
Roach, Julia Louise, 153
Roberts, Lord, 30
Robinson, Ethel De Silva, 121
Sarah Elizabeth, 76
Roblee, Harris, 46
Rockwell, Alice, 61
Asael, 54, 64, 66
Benjamin, 117
Elizabeth, 117
Hannah, 54
James Manson, 51
Jerusha, 66
John, 42
Joseph, 40, 61
Lydia, 65
Mary, 117
Noah, 41
Ruth, 54
Rogers, Clara Louise, 94
John, 94
Ross, William, 67
Rowlandson, Martha, 13
Salisbury, Joy, 189
Kimball, 189
Sanford, Adelaide M., 147
Benjamin, 44
James C., 77
John, 42
Julia, 44
Lucy, 44
Savary, Judge A. W., 24
Sawyer, Sheriff John James, 152
William Tobin, 1 52
Schafheitlin, Frederick, 155
Rudolf, 155
Schofield, Brenton, 107
Caroline, 107
Isaac, 107
Jacob, 107
Minnie, 107
Thomas, 107
Seagrave, Minnie Frances, 86
Seelye, Abram, 94
Shaftner, Emelina, 98
Shirley, William, 16, 17, 49
Simpson, Alexander Eaton, 189
Alexander, 189
Singleton, Eunice, 13
Sivright, James, 43
Smith, Lucy, 28
Richard, 39
Spidell, Rev. J. D., 192
Evelyn Mildred, 192
Spinnens, Abigail, 62
Spinney, Susan, 93
Sproul, Charles Ernest, 81
George Alvin, 81
Harry Augustus, 81
Orbin, 81
St. John, Hannah, 52
Stairs, Alee Eaton, 123
Edith, 123
Herbert, 123, 129, 21 9-221
Mary Macdonald, 123
Hon. William James, 123, 219
Starkweather, H., 91
Starr, Alice Augusta, 69
Charles, 60
Christopher, 60
Ella, 69
Family, 207-209
George Herbert, 69
John, 41
Maj. John Edward, 69
John Rufus, 69
Joseph, 41
Pauline, 122
Samuel, 69
246
INDEX OF OTHER NAMES
Starratt, Harriet, 55
William, 55
Steadman, Benjamin, 43
Enoch, 54
Susannah, 54
Steckle, EUen, 193
Henry Bleim, 193
Stevens, Armanilla, 109
Gwendolyn, 143
Jacob, 109
Stewart, Dorcas, 64
Stickney, Jonathan, 53
William, 87
Stivers, Sarah E., iii
Stone, Daniel C., 135
John, 135
Stronach, Rebecca B., 112
Strong, Abel, 37
Alice, 37
Cynthia (or Huldah), 37
David, 37
Deborah, 37
Elizabeth, 37
Hannah, 60
Mary, 37
Mary Eliza, 80
Peter, 57, 58
Samuel S., 94
Sarah, 37
Stephen, 37
Susannah, 57, 60
Stuart, George W., 99
Sweet, Samuel B., 76
Terry, Elkanah, 97
Ephraim, 97
Irene, 97
Thomas, Maj. Nathanie' Ray, Jr., 55
Orv'ille Verner, 136
Thompson, Thomas, 88
Thomson, Robert, 66
Thorne, Augusta Billing, 176, 218
James Hall, 218, 219
Thorpe, William, 51
Tobin, El iza, 152
Troop, Henrietta, 79
Mary, 46
Robert, 79
Tupper, 42
Mrs. Jeremiah, 42
Turner, Emeline, no
Tuttle, Frances, 8
Twining, Rev. William, 38
Urquhart, Annette, 147
Valentine, Edward, 218
Van Alstyne, Gray, 91
Guy, 91
^ P., 91
Vergor, Duchambon de, 49
Vickery, Matthias, 53
Vincent, Elizabeth Mary, 100
Wagner, Jennie, 109
Walker, Sarah Elizabeth, 83
Dr. William H., 105
Waters, George, 116
Mrs. Henr}* S., 116
Watters, Mrs., 57
Waugh, Hannah, 85
Webb, Dorothy, 134
Evelyn Mae, 134
John, 134
Margaret, 134
Trueman B., 134
Winifred Eaton, 134
Webster, Eben, 95
Frances, 95
Weeman, Eli, 84
WeUs, Ann, 42
Asenath, 38
Eunice, 38, 42
John (M. P. P.), 38, 42
John Newton, 38
Judah, 38, 42
Levi, 40
Mary Jane, 38
Matilda, 38
Prudence, 38
INDEX OF OTHER NAMES
247
Wells, Prudence Eaton, 77
Sophia, 38
William Henry, 66
Wentworth, Lady, 55
West, Ella Maude, 15 1
Gibb, 151
Westcott, Robert, 61
Sarah Ann, 61
Duke of Westminster, 5
Wheaton, Judge, 28
Whidden, Margaret, 86, 135
Stephen, 135
White, David, 37
Deborah, 13, 26, 37
Elder John, 37
Richard Grant, 13
Sarah Miller, 37
Thomas, 13, 37
Whitney, Mary Jane, 63
Thomas, 63
Uriah, 63
Warren, 63
Whittaker, George, 52
Whittemore, H., 109
Wickwire, Gideon, 51
Sarah A., 75
William, 66
Wigham, Charlotte, 153
Wilder, Marshall, 47
Wilkes, Annie Clarice, 150
Williams, Hester, 80
Willoughby, Dr. Samuel, 26
Wills, Harriet Jane, 87
Wilson, Winifred, 143
Winsor, Justin, 73
Wiswell, John, 54
Withers, George, 46
Mary Ann, 78
William, 78
Wood, Daniel, 118
David Andrew, 51
Patten, 51
Mary, 116, 118
Nancy, 118
Woodman, Adelia, 130
Woodworth, Adelia, 115
Benjamin B., 119
Douglas Nathan, 115
Eaton, 135
Edith Clementine, 105
Elizabeth, 38
Eric Elder, 105
Frances, 135
Frederick, 135
Frederick Irving, 134
Huldah, 40
Lewis, 106
Levi, 56
Nathan, 67
Ruth Edwina, 105
Sarah Ellis, 67
Thomas, 38, 40
Dr. William Sommerville, 105
Zerviah, 38
Wright, Charles Graham, 121
Charles Hemmeon, Jr., 121
Charles Hemmeon, Sr., 122
Charles William, 122
Jean Elizabeth, 121
Rhoda Valentine, 121
Young, Rosanna Melvenia, 80, 132
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